Miller wrote: “To dream of embracing your husband or wife, as the case may be, in a sorrowing or indifferent way, denotes…” 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
Embrace · Heading 706; source lines 8419–8433 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of embracing your husband or wife, as the case may be, in a sorrowing or indifferent way, denotes that you will have dissensions and accusations in your family, also that sickness is threatened.
To embrace relatives, signifies their sickness and unhappiness.
For lovers to dream of embracing, foretells quarrels and disagreements arising from infidelity. If these dreams take place under auspicious conditions, the reverse may be expected.
If you embrace a stranger, it signifies that you will have an unwelcome guest.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Embrace · Heading 228; source line 1939 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of embracing relatives is a warning of treachery; if friends, disappointments; if one unknown embrace you, you will travel; the embrace of a woman brings good luck.
Anonymous · Embrace
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Embrace · Dreams interpreted, passage 38; source lines 220–221 · Text transcription
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Original source (English)
To dream you embrace, without power to speak, denotes the party to fall in love, but shall not obtain the person desired.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Embrace” because that is the subject of its first clause.
View source editionAnonymous · Embrace
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Embrace · Dreams interpreted, passage 41; source lines 228–230 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
For a barren woman to dream she embraces one of her own sex, denotes that in time she shall have children, but to a fruitful woman it denotes very great pain and sorrow in child bearing.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Embrace” because that is the subject of its first clause.
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