Miller wrote: “To dream of ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers, distressing conditions in business, destruction…” Compare 4 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
Ruins · Heading 1748; source lines 19545–19555 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers, distressing conditions in business, destruction to crops, and failing health.
To dream of ancient ruins, foretells that you will travel extensively, but there will be a note of sadness mixed with the pleasure in the realization of a long-cherished hope. You will feel the absence of some friend.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Ruin · Heading 687; source line 4314 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream that you are looking at old ruins, or castles, or buildings, it is a sign you will travel in distant countries: to dream of the ruins of a house that has been burnt down, foretells that you will experience a loss of property: if, in your dream, you see the ruins of a house that has fallen down, it denotes the death of a friend or acquaintance.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ruins · Dream section, heading 367; source lines 4748–4750 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To explore a ruin denotes a pleasant surprise.
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
Ruins · Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11756–11758 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of contrary denoting unexpected gains (Gypsy).
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