Miller wrote: “If you dream of light, success will attend you.” Compare 4 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
Light · Heading 1195; source lines 13916–13924 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of light, success will attend you. To dream of weird light, or if the light goes out, you will be disagreeably surprised by some undertaking resulting in nothing.
To see a dim light, indicates partial success.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Light · Heading 431; source line 2976 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Candles, Lamp and Torch.) To dream you see a great light, is a happy presage; it denotes that you will attain honors, and become rich; in love it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Light · Dream section, heading 303; source lines 1216–1219 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see a great light is a happy presage. It denotes that you will attain great honors and become very rich. In love, it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition, that you will marry well, have children and be very happy.
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
Light · Printed p. 229–230; NLM OCR lines 10663–10674 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being aboard ship and of seeing a light afar off assures one of his desires; to hold a burning light in the hands is good, especially to the young, signifying accomplishment of designs, honors and good will to all persons. A light in the hands of another foretells the discovery of mischief and the punishment of the offender (Old Dream Book). The symbolism is easily followed.
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