Miller wrote: “To dream of feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake in the formation of enterprises,…” Compare 2 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
Lazy · Heading 1166; source lines 13521–13529 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake in the formation of enterprises, and will suffer keen disappointment.
For a young woman to think her lover is lazy, foretells she will have bad luck in securing admiration. Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lazy · Heading 417; source line 2911 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you see lazy people lounging around, and that you are vexed with them, is a sign of bad luck to some of your relatives, who will depend upon you to assist them: if, in your dream, you imagine yourself to be lazy and sleepy over your work, it foretells either sickness or that you will meet with a loss.
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