Miller wrote: “If you wear ornaments in dreams, you will have a flattering honor conferred upon you.” 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
Ornament · Heading 1448; source lines 16468–16479 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you wear ornaments in dreams, you will have a flattering honor conferred upon you.
If you receive them, you will be fortunate in undertakings.
Giving them away, denotes recklessness and lavish extravagance.
Losing an ornament, brings the loss either of a lover, or a good situation.
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
Ornament · Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11180–11182 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting want and penury through extravagance ( Raphael ).
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