Miller wrote: “Poppies seen in dreams, represents a season of seductive pleasures and flattering business, but they all…” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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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
Poppies · Heading 1590; source lines 17982–17995 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Poppies seen in dreams, represents a season of seductive pleasures and flattering business, but they all occupy unstable foundations.
If you inhale the odor of one, you will be the victim of artful persuasions and flattery.
(The mesmeric influence of the poppy inducts one into strange atmospheres, leaving materiality behind while the subjective self explores these realms as in natural sleep; yet these dreams do not bear truthful warnings to the material man. Being, in a manner, enforced.)
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
Poppy · Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11489–11493 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting illness to the sleeper or tidings of illness to loved ones (Gypsy). An interpretation evidently derived from the use of the poppy in the manufacture of opium, rather than from the symbolism of the blossoms.
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