Miller wrote: “To dream of sugar, denotes that you will be hard to please in your domestic life, and will entertain…” Compare 4 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
Sugar · Heading 1945; source lines 21494–21516 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of sugar, denotes that you will be hard to please in your domestic life, and will entertain jealousy while seeing no cause for aught but satisfaction and secure joys. There may be worries, and your strength and temper taxed after this dream.
To eat sugar in your dreams, you will have unpleasant matters to contend with for a while, but they will result better than expected.
To price sugar, denotes that you are menaced by enemies.
To deal in sugar and see large quantities of it being delivered to you, you will barely escape a serious loss.
To see a cask of sugar burst and the sugar spilling out, foretells a slight loss.
To hear a negro singing while unloading sugar, some seemingly insignificant affair will bring you great benefit, either in business or social states.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Sugar · Heading 768; source line 4752 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of sugar denotes purity: if a lover dreams that his sweetheart presents him with white loaf-sugar, it shows that her affection for him is pure and disinterested; it is therefore a good sign for him to dream of taking tea with her, as she would naturally put such sugar in his tea: to dream of sugar of any kind, or sugar candy, is an excellent omen.
An old prediction runs as follows:
Dreams of sugar and sweetmeat, Or drinking wine with pleasure great, And all dreams pleasant in condition, Show sports of love, and love’s fruition.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Sugar · Dream section, heading 411; source lines 4855–4857 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes want and suffering.
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
Sugar · Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12069–12071 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of swallowing a quantity of sugar denotes that privation is about to beset you (Gypsy).
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