Miller wrote: “To dream of eating cheese, denotes great disappointments and sorrow.” 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
Cheese · Heading 397; source lines 5403–5408 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating cheese, denotes great disappointments and sorrow. No good of any nature can be hoped for. Cheese is generally a bad dream.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cheese · Heading 133; source line 1526 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you eat cheese, signifies profit and gain in trade; in love, deceit.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Cheese · Dream section, heading 97; source lines 493–498 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of cheese is not in vain. In trade you will profit gain.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cheese · Dream section, heading 99; source lines 4098–4100 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Foretells success and a journey.
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