Dreams have variously inspired and haunted kings, poets, inventors, artists, musicians, statesmen and others since the dawn of recorded experience. Custavus Hindman Miller's Dictionary of Dreams first appeared in 1909, ten years after Sigmund Freud's pioneering work The Interpretation of Dreams, and is therefore an historical work on dream analysis first published at the time of a quantum leap in human consciousness.

10,000 entries cover Bananas to Cauliflowers, Garbage to Gravy, Measles to Mustard, and Virgins to Zebras. The text is supplemented with a 40-page preface.