Diphtheria, a throat illness of older times, is read as a voice that feels choked or blocked. Tradition connects it to things left unsaid that make it hard to breathe freely.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.