Miller wrote: “To dream that you are on an island in a clear stream, signifies pleasant journeys and fortunate enterprises.” Compare 5 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
Island · Heading 1069; source lines 12342–12357 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are on an island in a clear stream, signifies pleasant journeys and fortunate enterprises. To a woman, this omens a happy marriage.
A barren island, indicates forfeiture of happiness and money through intemperance.
To see an island, denotes comfort and easy circumstances after much striving and worrying to meet honorable obligations.
To see people on an island, denotes a struggle to raise yourself higher in prominent circles.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Island · Heading 380; source line 2708 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are on a deserted island shows that you will commit some act to disgust your friends and make them cut your acquaintance; be careful how you behave after dreaming such a dream.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Island · Dream section, heading 227; source lines 4401–4404 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To be on an island in the ocean means luck; in a lake or river, loneliness.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Island · Dream section, heading 131; source lines 3842–3845 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a woman to dream of an island forebodes desertion by husband or lover.
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
Island · Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10467–10469 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream auguring isolation, loneliness (Gypsy). Obviously symbolical.
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