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Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management.” 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.

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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

Clouds · Heading 439; source lines 5784–5795 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management. If rain is falling, it denotes troubles and sickness.

To see bright transparent clouds with the sun shining through them, you will be successful after trouble has been your companion.

To see them with the stars shining, denotes fleeting joys and small advancements.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Clouds · Heading 148; source line 1588 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity, clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill-issue of affairs; dark and obscure clouds, obstructions in love

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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription

Of Clouds. · Book 2, encoded section 99 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

WHite clouds, is prosperity, moūting from the earth on high, is a voyage, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets. Red or inflamed, is ill issue of affayrs, smoaky, dark, or obscure, is ill time or anger.

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A. H. Noe

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885

Clouds · Dream section, heading 100; source lines 506–510 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity; clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill issue of affairs; to dream of dark and obscure clouds, shows an ill time of anger.

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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

Clouds · Printed p. 208–209; NLM OCR lines 9569–9578 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of heavy clouds signifies threatened misfortune; light, opaque clouds denote mystery (Gypsy); they are sometimes symbolic of the majesty of Jehovah, at other times of doubt and obscurity.

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