Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in need, denotes that you will speculate unwisely and distressing news of absent…” 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
Need · Heading 1377; source lines 15766–15774 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are in need, denotes that you will speculate unwisely and distressing news of absent friends will oppress you.
To see others in need, foretells that unfortunate affairs will affect yourself with others.
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
Need · Printed p. 236; NLM OCR lines 11022–11026 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of need denotes wealth in store (Gypsy). The shrewd interpreter might easily augur that the anxiety that roused the dream would give birth to frugality, etc., that tend to accumulate wealth.
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