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Miller wrote: “To dream that you ascend steps, denotes that fair prospects will relieve former anxiety.” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

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

Steps · Heading 1923; source lines 21283–21296 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that you ascend steps, denotes that fair prospects will relieve former anxiety.

To decend them, you may look for misfortune.

To fall down them, you are threatened with unexpected failure in your affairs. See Stairs.

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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

Steps · Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12033–12035 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To walk up steps is a dream auguring success in love, a happy marriage and a rise in life (Raphael),

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