Miller wrote: “To see a coffee mill in your dreams, denotes you are approaching a critical danger, and all your energy and alertness will have to stand up…”
The historical account
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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
Coffee Mill · Heading 456; source lines 5947–5955 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a coffee mill in your dreams, denotes you are approaching a critical danger, and all your energy and alertness will have to stand up with obduracy to avert its disastrous consequences. To hear it grinding, signifies you will hardly overthrow some evil pitted against your interest.
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