Miller wrote: “To see statues in dreams, signifies estrangement from a loved one.” 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
Statues · Heading 1920; source lines 21254–21259 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see statues in dreams, signifies estrangement from a loved one. Lack of energy will cause you disappointment in realizing wishes.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Statue · Heading 754; source line 4690 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of marble statues is a sign of advancement; those who imagine that they see beautiful statuary will be sure to rise above their present position in society.
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Statues. · Book 3, encoded section 166 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
BRasen statues being very big, séen moving in a dreame, are riches and revenews: But excéeding great ones, and moving like Monsters, are great terrours and perils: because one cannot see them without frighting. Statues also represent Magistrates and Governors of the Town, and in this case, whatsoever they shall do or say, shall befall the said personages.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Statues · Dream section, heading 471; source lines 1729–1732 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing brazen statues moving, signifies riches. But to dream you see great statues moving, like monsters, denotes terror and perils.
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