Miller wrote: “If you are surrounded by night in your dreams, you may expect unusual oppression and hardships in business.” 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
Night · Heading 1390; source lines 15923–15933 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you are surrounded by night in your dreams, you may expect unusual oppression and hardships in business. If the night seems to be vanishing, conditions which hitherto seemed unfavorable will now grow bright, and affairs will assume prosperous phases. See Darkness.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Night · Heading 507; source line 3375 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Stars.) To dream of a clear beautiful night when the stars are shining, indicates that you will have a long and happy life and be very successful in all your undertakings. To dream you are courting your sweetheart on such a night shows that she is true to you. To dream of a cloudy night portends disasters in business, and to dream of a stormy night indicates sickness.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Night · Dream section, heading 186; source lines 3990–3992 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of night presages sadness and gloom.
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
Night · Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11049–11056 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To be suddenly overtaken by night, a sudden adversary. To walk on a dark night denotes grief, disappointment, loss. It is ominous to dream of night-birds, with the exception of the nightingale, which denotes joyful news to the dreamer, if a married woman, she will have children who will be great singers (Artemidorus). It is said that Jenny Lind's mother dreamed of a nightingale.
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