Dreaming of a Spinning Top

spinning tops, dreidel, toy, whirligig · mostly negative

A spinning top foretells petty difficulties and money wasted on trifles.

What happens in the dream

  • A top spinning, or you spin one: you'll waste your means on childish pleasures
  • You see a top: trivial troubles and friendships made too freely

How you felt

  • A whirl: feeling you're going round in circles
  • Nostalgia: a wish for childhood's carefree days

Ask yourself

  • Where do I feel I'm going in circles?
  • Do I choose my friends, or just fall into them?

See also Toys · Doll · Roundabout · Kite

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); A. H. Noe, The Witches' Dream Book (1885). Also searched as: dreidel, toy, whirligig.

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