Miller wrote: “Debt is rather a bad dream, foretelling worries in business and love, and struggles for a competency.” Compare 3 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
Debt · Heading 603; source lines 7275–7281 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Debt is rather a bad dream, foretelling worries in business and love, and struggles for a competency; but if you have plenty to meet all your obligations, your affairs will assume a favorable turn.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Debt · Heading 185; source line 1728 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of paying a debt with money, foretells that you will soon receive some. If you imagine that you owe a debt, and are worrying to get the money to pay, it is a sign of sickness.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Debts · Dream section, heading 131; source lines 4169–4171 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of owing money means business safety.
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