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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
Drunk · Heading 666; source lines 8021–8038 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This is an unfavorable dream if you are drunk on heavy liquors, indicating profligacy and loss of employment. You will be disgraced by stooping to forgery or theft.
If drunk on wine, you will be fortunate in trade and love-making, and will scale exalted heights in literary pursuits. This dream is always the bearer of aesthetic experiences.
To see others in a drunken condition, foretells for you, and probably others, unhappy states.
Drunkenness in all forms is unreliable as a good dream. All classes are warned by this dream to shift their thoughts into more healthful channels.
View source edition Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Drunkenness · Heading 208; source line 1839 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are drunk, is loss in business; but success in love; to a woman, it denotes she will be beloved by a stranger; and to a man that he will be married to a rich young widow. To the married it denotes domestic bliss. To see a drunken man, shows that you will be guilty of some foolish action.
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View source editionA. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Drunkenness · Dream section, heading 139; source lines 621–628 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are drunk, is one of those dreams by which the dreamer is forewarned of that of which at present he knows nothing. It denotes that some person whom yet you do not know, will become a very good friend and promote your welfare. To a woman, it denotes that she will be beloved by an excellent man whom yet she has not seen; and to a man it denotes that he is tenderly beloved by a woman whom he does not at present think of, who will make him extremely happy, and bring him money.
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View source editionAstra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Drunk · Dream section, heading 144; source lines 4199–4202 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a drunken person means bad news; to be drunk means disgrace.
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