Miller wrote: “Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream.” Compare 4 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
Balloon · Heading 154; source lines 3070–3077 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream. Business of every character will sustain an apparent falling off.
To ascend in a balloon, denotes an unfortunate journey.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Balloon · Heading 44; source line 1162 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Signifies you will undertake many visionary things in business, and success will not attend you.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Balloon · Dream section, heading 36; source lines 3940–3943 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To go up in a balloon means unexpected fortune. To see one means a message from home.
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
Balloon · Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9088–9089 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Unsuccessful schemes (Gypsy).
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