Miller wrote: “If you see strange and weird illuminations in your dreams, you will meet with disappointments and failures…” Compare 4 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
Illumination · Heading 1023; source lines 11927–11952 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you see strange and weird illuminations in your dreams, you will meet with disappointments and failures on every hand.
Illuminated faces, indicate unsettled business, both private and official.
To see the heavens illuminated, with the moon in all her weirdness, unnatural stars and a red sun, or a golden one, you may look for distress in its worst form. Death, family troubles, and national upheavals will occur.
To see children in the lighted heavens, warns you to control your feelings, as irrevocable wrong may be done in a frenzy of feeling arising over seeming neglect by your dear ones.
To see illuminated human figures or animals in the heavens, denotes failure and trouble; dark clouds overshadow fortune. To see them fall to the earth and men shoot them with guns, many troubles and obstacles will go to nought before your energy and determination to rise.
To see illuminated snakes, or any other creeping thing, enemies will surround you, and use hellish means to overthrow you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Illumination · Heading 369; source line 2664 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of an illumination augurs success in life and much happiness; if the light begins to disappear, sorrow and many tears will be your portion.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Illumination · Dream section, heading 263; source lines 1101–1104 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
It is a certain sign of war when persons dream of seeing a city illuminated. To dream your own house is illuminated, betokens much quarrelling among relatives.
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
Illumination · Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10434–10436 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Some great joy at hand is augured by this dream (Gypsy).
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