Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power.” 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
Back · Heading 139; source lines 2953–2964 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power. Lending advice or money is dangerous. Sickness often attends this dream.
To see a person turn and walk away from you, you may be sure envy and jealousy are working to your hurt.
To dream of your own back, bodes no good to the dreamer.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Back · Heading 38; source line 1136 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that your back is broken, hurt, or scabby, shows that your enemies will get the better of you. To dream of the backbone, signifies health and much joy. To see your back denotes misfortune. 2,
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of the back. · Book 1, encoded section 38 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
THe Backe and all the hinder parts signifie old age, therefore as one thinks his back and hinder parts to be, so shall he be in his age.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Back · Dream section, heading 59; source lines 337–340 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see your back, betokens some uneasiness; for the back to be broken or hurt, shows you will be scoffed at by your enemies; yet to dream of the backbone, signifies health and success in love, marriage and business.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Back · Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9059–9064 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To see your own back in your dream indicates misfortune, uneasiness of mind, sickness, etc. This is obviously a dream incited by the physical condition, from backache, and its attendant discomfort that draws the dreamer's attention to that portion of the anatomy.
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