Miller wrote: “Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries.” Compare 5 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
Pictures · Heading 1542; source lines 17472–17498 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries.
To make a picture, denotes that you will engage in some unremunerative enterprise.
To destroy pictures, means that you will be pardoned for using strenuous means to establish your rights.
To buy them, foretells worthless speculation.
To dream of seeing your likeness in a living tree, appearing and disappearing, denotes that you will be prosperous and seemingly contented, but there will be disappointments in reaching out for companionship and reciprocal understanding of ideas and plans.
To dream of being surrounded with the best efforts of the old and modern masters, denotes that you will have insatiable longings and desires for higher attainments, compared to which present success will seem poverty-stricken and miserable. See Painting and Photographs.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Pictures · Heading 574; source line 3737 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing pictures is a sign of joy without profit.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Pictures · Dream section, heading 417; source lines 1563–1569 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are looking at beautiful pictures, foreshows that you will be allured by false appearances into some unprofitable concern, that you will waste your time on some idle project, and that you will always be in pursuit of happiness without attaining it. In love, it denotes great pleasure in the enjoyment of the beloved object. It promises a handsome wife, a good husband, and beautiful children.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Picture · Dream section, heading 202; source lines 4038–4041 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of painting pictures denotes that you will engage in some unremunerative, albeit not unpleasant, enterprise.
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
Pictures · Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11376–11376 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of falsehood and deceit (Raphael).
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