Miller wrote: “To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss and much perplexity.”
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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
Chrysanthemum · Heading 417; source lines 5588–5605 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss and much perplexity; colored ones, betokens pleasant engagements.
To see them in bouquets, denotes that love will be offered you, but a foolish ambition will cause you to put it aside. To pass down an avenue of white chrysanthemums, with here and there a yellow one showing among the white, foretells a strange sense of loss and sadness, from which the sensibilities will expand and take on new powers. While looking on these white flowers as you pass, and you suddenly feel your spirit leave your body and a voice shouts aloud “Glory to God, my Creator,” foretells that a crisis is pending in your near future. If some of your friends pass out, and others take up true ideas in connection with spiritual and earthly needs, you will enjoy life in its deepest meaning. Often death is near you in these dreams.
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