Miller wrote: “If in your dreams you enter a pawn-shop, you will find disappointments and losses in your waking moments.”
The historical account
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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
Pawn-shop · Heading 1509; source lines 17085–17102 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If in your dreams you enter a pawn-shop, you will find disappointments and losses in your waking moments.
To pawn articles, you will have unpleasant scenes with your wife or sweetheart, and perhaps disappointments in business.
For a woman to go to a pawn-shop, denotes that she is guilty of indiscretions, and she is likely to regret the loss of a friend.
To redeem an article, denotes that you will regain lost positions.
To dream that you see a pawn-shop, denotes you are negligent of your trust and are in danger of sacrificing your honorable name in some salacious affair.
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