Miller wrote: “Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states.” Compare 2 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
Bedbugs · Heading 193; source lines 3421–3435 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states. Fatalities are intimated if you see them in profusion.
To see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by illness. To mash them, and water appears instead of blood, denotes alarming but not fatal illness or accident. To see bedbugs crawling up white walls, and you throw scalding water upon them, denotes grave illness will distress you, but there will be useless fear of fatality.
If the water fails to destroy them, some serious complication with fatal results is not improbable.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Bed-Bugs · Heading 64; source line 1238 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denote strife, and quarrels.
Take a question into your day.
These journal questions are DreamFolia’s invitation to reflect on your experience.
Save it before it slips away. No account needed.
Also indexed as: bed-bugs
Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings. Updated 2026-10-12. Read our approach and sources.