Miller wrote: “To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine and uprisal of races and great…” Compare 2 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
Desert · Heading 614; source lines 7364–7373 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine and uprisal of races and great loss of life and property.
For a young woman to find herself alone in a desert, her health and reputation is being jeopardized by her indiscretion. She should be more cautious.
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
Desert · Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9747–9750 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Loss of friends and wealth are shown by this dream (Artemidorus); loneliness and isolation are plainly symbolized.
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