Miller wrote: “To dream that you laugh and feel cheerful, means success in your undertakings, and bright companions…” 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
Laughing · Heading 1160; source lines 13441–13457 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you laugh and feel cheerful, means success in your undertakings, and bright companions socially.
Laughing immoderately at some weird object, denotes disappointment and lack of harmony in your surroundings.
To hear the happy laughter of children, means joy and health to the dreamer.
To laugh at the discomfiture of others, denotes that you will wilfully injure your friends to gratify your own selfish desires.
To hear mocking laughter, denotes illness and disappointing affairs.
The source heading “Laughing” is shown on the Laughter page: same topic
View source editionFelix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Laughter · Heading 413; source line 2892 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This omen is unfavorable, and is a sign of tears; it also denotes that you will be worsted by your business engagements; if a lover dreams he sees his sweetheart laugh, it is a sign she will jilt him for a stranger; to the married it signifies domestic trouble.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Laughing · Dream section, heading 314; source lines 1251–1253 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of laughing violently, betokens sorrow and weeping. It also denotes change of circumstances and friends.
The source heading “Laughing” is shown on the Laughter page: same topic
View source editionAstra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Laughter · Dream section, heading 250; source lines 4461–4464 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To laugh heartily in your sleep, “Beware of trouble!”
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Laughter · Dream section, heading 153; source lines 3907–3909 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Presages difficult circumstances.
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