Miller wrote: “To dream of riding is unlucky for business or pleasure.” 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
Ride · Heading 1715; source lines 19191–19200 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of riding is unlucky for business or pleasure. Sickness often follows this dream.
If you ride slowly, you will have unsatisfactory results in your undertakings.
Swift riding sometimes means prosperity under hazardous conditions.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Riding · Heading 671; source line 4241 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Carriage, Stage-coach, and Gig.) To dream you are riding, if it be with a woman, is unfortunate: in trade, decay of business; in love, disappointments; but if it be with men, then, by care, the reverse of these things will happen. Riding in a railcar, or a stage, foretells success in business matters.
The source heading “Riding” is shown on the Ride page: same topic
View source editionA. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Riding · Dream section, heading 432; source lines 1607–1609 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are riding, if it be with a woman, is very fortunate. If you are in trade, business will decay.
The source heading “Riding” is shown on the Ride page: same topic
View source editionAstra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ride · Dream section, heading 359; source lines 4727–4729 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To ride with either men or women denotes coming trouble.
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
Riding · Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11698–11701 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of good fortune (Raphael). An erotic dream (Freud, Jung). Legends and tradition generally justify Raphael's interpretation.
The source heading “Riding” is shown on the Ride page: same topic
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