Miller wrote: “To receive presents in your dreams, denotes that you will be unusually fortunate. See Gifts.” 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
Present · Heading 1613; source lines 18186–18194 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To receive presents in your dreams, denotes that you will be unusually fortunate. See Gifts.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Present · Heading 607; source line 3897 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Gift.) To dream of receiving a present, is usually a sign of disappointment; but if a married woman dreams that she is presented with fruit, it shows that she will soon become pregnant: if a girl imagines she is presented by her lover with gold jewelry, it predicts that he covets the possession of her person rather than her heart.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Present · Dream section, heading 336; source lines 4668–4671 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Dreaming of receiving gifts denotes a loss. To make a present means success.
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