Miller wrote: “To dream of ships, foretells honor and unexpected elevation to ranks above your mode of life.” Compare 5 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
Ship · Heading 1830; source lines 20294–20314 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ships, foretells honor and unexpected elevation to ranks above your mode of life.
To hear of a shipwreck is ominous of a disastrous turn in affairs. Your female friends will betray you.
To lose your life in one, denotes that you will have an exceeding close call on your life or honor.
To see a ship on her way through a tempestuous storm, foretells that you will be unfortunate in business transactions, and you will be perplexed to find means of hiding some intrigue from the public, as your partner in the affair will threaten you with betrayal.
To see others shipwrecked, you will seek in vain to shelter some friend from disgrace and insolvency.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Ship · Heading 718; source line 4483 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a ship under full sail, while you stand on the shore, is a sign you will soon fall in love with a pretty girl, who will favor your addresses; but if you see this ship while you are on the water in some other vessel, it shows that your sweetheart will be jealous of you. To dream of being shipwrecked and losing your property, foretells good luck in business matters, but quarrels in love affairs.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Ship · Dream section, heading 493; source lines 1812–1814 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing ships freighted with goods, denotes prosperity. If you dream of seeing ships endangered by a tempest, it signifies fear.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ship · Dream section, heading 380; source lines 4779–4782 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If at anchor a ship denotes happiness; if sailing, wishes fulfilled.
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
Ship · Printed p. 252–253; NLM OCR lines 11883–11889 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of hopes and plans, fulfilled according to the fate of the dream bark in question (Gypsy). Also the Christian symbol of hope, etc.
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