Miller wrote: “To commit suicide in a dream, foretells that misfortune will hang heavily over you.” Compare 2 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
Suicide · Heading 1947; source lines 21521–21532 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To commit suicide in a dream, foretells that misfortune will hang heavily over you.
To see or hear others committing this deed, foretells that the failure of others will affect your interests.
For a young woman to dream that her lover commits suicide, her disappointment by the faithlessness of her lover is accentuated.
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
Suicide · Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12072–12074 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting misfortunes brought about by yourself (Gypsy).
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