Miller wrote: “To dream of climbing hills is good if the top is reached, but if you fall back, you will have much envy…” Compare 5 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
Hills · Heading 969; source lines 11224–11233 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of climbing hills is good if the top is reached, but if you fall back, you will have much envy and contrariness to fight against. See Ascend and Descend.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Hill · Heading 350; source line 2552 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of going up a hill is a sign you will rise in the world, and of going down hill the reverse; if, in your dream, you seem to be approaching a smooth high hill, it shows that you will shortly have a piece of good fortune; but if the hill be rugged and stony, it foretells difficulties in connection with the good fortune.
To dream of mountains, hills, or rocks, Does signify, slouts, scoffs, and mocks; Their pains in passing over shew, That she whom you love, loves not you.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Hills · Dream section, heading 233; source lines 993–996 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are traveling over high hills and wading through great difficulties, having lost your way, shows you shall meet with assistance and have good counsel in your difficulties.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Hill · Dream section, heading 212; source lines 4361–4363 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Going up a hill means success; going down one, failure.
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
Hill · Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10326–10329 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of climbing a steep hill and reaching the top, difficulties overcome; to fail to reach the top, disappointment; green hills in the distance, hope, promise ( Artemidorus).
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