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What does it mean to dream about a dog?
Dogs are one of the animals people dream about most. Miller's entry on dogs is long and detailed; the lines below are quoted exactly, and the full entry is one click away.
What Miller wrote (1901)
To dream of a vicious dog, denotes enemies and unalterable misfortune. To dream that a dog fondles you, indicates great gain and constant friends. … To dream of dogs biting you, foretells for you a quarrelsome companion either in marriage or business. … If you dream of a friendly white dog approaching you, it portends for you a victorious engagement whether in business or love.
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A dream about a dog comes with a place, other people and a feeling, and the old books read the same image very differently depending on those details. Dreamlore takes your whole dream, spoken or typed, finds the passages that fit it in Miller and Freud, quotes them word for word, and leaves you one question to reflect on. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream about a dog?
Miller's 1901 dictionary reads a vicious dog as enemies, a dog that fondles you as gain and constant friends, and a friendly white dog as success in business or love. What a dog means in your dream depends a lot on the dog and how you felt; these are old readings to reflect on.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.