Miller wrote: “To dream of a feast, foretells that pleasant surprises are being planned for you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Feast · Heading 768; source lines 8993–9002 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a feast, foretells that pleasant surprises are being planned for you. To see disorder or misconduct at a feast, foretells quarrels or unhappiness through the negligence or sickness of some person.
To arrive late at a feast, denotes that vexing affairs will occupy you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Feast · Heading 251; source line 2042 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of feasting at a friend’s house, or eating with him anywhere, it shows you will make a new acquaintance through his means. If a girl dreams this, it is a sign she will soon have a lover from that very house or place where she dreams of feasting.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Feast · Dream section, heading 165; source lines 4249–4252 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To be seated at a feast means that there is trouble ahead.
Anonymous
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Feast · Dreams interpreted, passage 51; source lines 258–259 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To see great feasts, and partake of them, signifies plenty; but if you are debarred from eating them, want and poverty.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Feast” because that is the subject of its first clause.
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