Dreaming of Camels

camels, camel, caravan · mixed, with a favorable outcome

The camel is about endurance: it signals heavy trials, but also the patience to get through them and unexpected help.

What happens in the dream

  • Owning a camel: valuable mining property
  • A herd of camels in the desert: help when all seems lost, and recovery against all expectations
  • A camel: great patience and fortitude through almost unbearable hardship

How you felt

  • Weariness: the dream often mirrors a load carried for a long time
  • Resilience: it may reflect awareness of your own stamina

Ask yourself

  • What burden am I carrying without complaint?
  • What help would get me across this desert?

See also Desert · Burden · Mine · Horse · Elephant

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901). Also searched as: camel, caravan.

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