Miller wrote: “Keep away from mats in your dreams, as they will usher you into sorrow and perplexities.” Compare 2 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
Mat · Heading 1278; source lines 14811–14816 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Keep away from mats in your dreams, as they will usher you into sorrow and perplexities.
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
Mat · Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10845–10849 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that a door mat has been stolen forecasts that some one will try to enter your house (Raphael), A dream obviously originating in the unrecorded observation made by the subconscious.
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