Miller wrote: “To dream of an anchor is favorable to sailors, if seas are calm.” Compare 5 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Anchor · Heading 84; source lines 2442–2449 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of an anchor is favorable to sailors, if seas are calm. To others it portends separation from friends, change of residence, and foreign travel. Sweethearts are soon to quarrel if either sees an anchor.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Anchor · Heading 21; source line 1063 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see one, signifies unexpected success in love; but in business, it shows the success to be distant, and only obtainable with care.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Anchor · Dream section, heading 6; source lines 106–107 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see one, signifies great assurance and certain joys.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Anchor · Dream section, heading 11; source lines 3880–3882 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes a successful enterprise.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Anchor · Dream section, heading 4; source lines 3517–3520 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A voyage across the sea: (in water) a disappointment: (if a girl dreams) a sailor will fall in love with her.
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