Miller wrote: “To dream of spectacles, foretells that strangers will cause changes in your affairs.” Compare 3 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
Spectacles · Heading 1889; source lines 20967–20975 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of spectacles, foretells that strangers will cause changes in your affairs. Frauds will be practised on your credulity.
To dream that you see broken spectacles, denotes estrangement caused by fondness for illegal pleasures.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Spectacles · Dream section, heading 224; source lines 4102–4104 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Be on guard against persons trying to deceive.
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
Spectacles · Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11989–11991 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of wearing them, disgrace, low spirits (Gypsy).
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