Miller wrote: “To dream of a telescope, portends unfavorable seasons for love and domestic affairs, and business will be…” 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
Telescope · Heading 1997; source lines 22079–22091 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a telescope, portends unfavorable seasons for love and domestic affairs, and business will be changeable and uncertain.
To look at planets and stars through one, portends for you journeys which will afford you much pleasure, but later cause you much financial loss.
To see a broken telescope, or one not in use, signifies that matters will go out of the ordinary with you, and trouble may be expected.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Telescope · Heading 787; source line 4863 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Spy-Glass.) To dream of looking through a telescope at a distance over farm lands, is a sign you will either purchase a farm or inherit one: if you dream of looking at the stars, it shows that you will rise in the world—if at the moon, and you are delighted with the view, it predicts for you great riches.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Telescope · Dream section, heading 518; source lines 1880–1883 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a person to dream of looking through a telescope at some distant object, is an indication that the dreamer will shortly receive a letter from a friend in a far-distant country.
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