Miller wrote: “To dream that you are oppressed by heat, denotes failure to carry out designs on account of some friend…” Compare 3 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
Heat · Heading 951; source lines 11081–11087 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are oppressed by heat, denotes failure to carry out designs on account of some friend betraying you. Heat is not a very favorable dream.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Heat · Heading 347; source line 2540 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of being in a place that is extremely hot, or if the weather is so hot that the heat affects you, it shows that some person is preparing either to attack you or give you a good scolding.
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
Heat · Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10285–10287 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eternal heat denotes fever (Gypsy). Obvious interpretation.
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