Miller wrote: “To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings will irritate and dwarf you into an…” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Brain · Heading 266; source lines 4011–4020 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings will irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion. To see the brains of animals, foretells that you will suffer mental trouble.
If you eat them, you will gain knowledge, and profit unexpectedly.
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
Brain · Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9290–9293 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Sickness, loss of reputation, etc. (Gypsy); a dream due to physical causes, for which the ancient students made obvious allowance.
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