Miller wrote: “To find yourself in quicksand while dreaming, you will meet with loss and deceit.” Compare 2 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
Quicksand · Heading 1654; source lines 18557–18569 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To find yourself in quicksand while dreaming, you will meet with loss and deceit.
If you are unable to overcome it, you will be involved in overwhelming misfortunes.
For a young woman to be rescued by her lover from quicksand, she will possess a worthy and faithful husband, who will still remain her lover.
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
Quicksands · Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11590–11592 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream warning you of temptations, dangers and weaknesses of which you are unaware (Raphael).
Take a question into your day.
These journal questions are DreamFolia’s invitation to reflect on your experience.
Save it before it slips away. No account needed.
Also indexed as: quicksands
Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings. Updated 2026-10-12. Read our approach and sources.