Miller wrote: “Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory over the same.” 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
Battle · Heading 181; source lines 3296–3304 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory over the same.
If you are defeated in battle, it denotes that bad deals made by others will mar your prospects for good.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Battle · Heading 56; source line 1204 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream you are engaged in a battle, or see a battle, it is a sign that you will soon undertake some new enterprise, and will leave off the business or calling in which you are then engaged; it also predicts to a girl that she will meet a young man in whom she is much interested; to a soldier it foretells that he will be advanced in rank.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Battle · Dream section, heading 57; source lines 332–334 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of battle in the streets, forewarns you against secret enemies who will endeavor to harm you. If you are in love, your sweetheart is false to you.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Battle · Dream section, heading 17; source lines 3551–3554 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(By girl) Will shortly fall in love; (by a soldier) promotion.
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
Battle · Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9121–9127 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being in battle implies trouble of a serious nature with friends; to overcome indicates triumph (Gypsy). Evidently the realities of warfare were too grim and too close to admit the rule of contraries to apply to this dream, to which modem interpreters, however, attach an erotic meaning.
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