Miller wrote: “To dream that you are famishing, foretells that you are meeting disheartening failure in some enterprise which you considered a promising…”
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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
Famish · Heading 755; source lines 8882–8888 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are famishing, foretells that you are meeting disheartening failure in some enterprise which you considered a promising success. To see others famishing, brings sorrow to others as well as to yourself.
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