Miller wrote: “Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs, and uncertain love making.” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller · Ropes
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Ropes · Heading 1736; source lines 19404–19441 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs, and uncertain love making.
If you climb one, you will overcome enemies who are working to injure you.
To decend[sic] a rope, brings disappointment to your most sanguine moments.
If you are tied with them, you are likely to yield to love contrary to your judgment.
To break them, signifies your ability to overcome enmity and competition.
To tie ropes, or horses, denotes that you will have power to control others as you may wish.
To walk a rope, signifies that you will engage in some hazardous speculation, but will surprisingly succeed. To see others walking a rope, you will benefit by the fortunate ventures of others.
To jump a rope, foretells that you will startle your associates with a thrilling escapade bordering upon the sensational.
To jump rope with children, shows that you are selfish and overbearing; failing to see that children owe very little duty to inhuman parents. To catch a rope with the foot, denotes that under cheerful conditions you will be benevolent and tender in your administrations.
To dream that you let a rope down from an upper window to people below, thinking the proprietors would be adverse to receiving them into the hotel, denotes that you will engage in some affair which will not look exactly proper to your friends, but the same will afford you pleasure and interest. For a young woman, this dream is indicative of pleasures which do not bear the stamp of propriety.
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
Ropes · Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11741–11743 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being led by ropes warns you against making any contracts with others (Gypsy).
Gustavus Hindman Miller · Cords
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Cords · Heading 507; source lines 6349–6354 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
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