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Miller wrote: “To think, in a dream, that some one has taken your seat, denotes you will be tormented by people calling…” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Seat · Heading 1803; source lines 20021–20028 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To think, in a dream, that some one has taken your seat, denotes you will be tormented by people calling on you for aid. To give a woman your seat, implies your yielding to some fair one's artfulness.

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A. H. Noe

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885

Seat · Dream section, heading 461; source lines 1692–1695 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that one has fallen from his seat, and would fain get into it again signifies that whatever office or employment he is in, he shall be displaced from it, and not be able to recover it again.

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