Miller wrote: “To dream that you take pills, denotes that you will have responsibilities to look after, but they will…” Compare 3 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
Pill · Heading 1548; source lines 17556–17564 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you take pills, denotes that you will have responsibilities to look after, but they will bring you no little comfort and enjoyment.
To give them to others, signifies that you will be criticised for your disagreeableness.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pills · Dream section, heading 326; source lines 4646–4648 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Taking pills is a sure sign of trouble and famine.
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
Pills · Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11393–11396 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream forecasting sickness (Gypsy); an interpretation obviously attributable to sensory stimuli, and to subconscious knowledge of a physical condition.
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