Miller wrote: “To dream of looking at a thermometer, denotes unsatisfactory business, and disagreements in the home.” Compare 2 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
Thermometer · Heading 2008; source lines 22190–22200 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of looking at a thermometer, denotes unsatisfactory business, and disagreements in the home.
To see a broken one, foreshadows illness. If the mercury seems to be falling, your affairs will assume a distressing shape. If it is rising, you will be able to throw off bad conditions in your business.
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
Thermometer · Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12205–12206 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting fever or some sudden change in the temperature (Gypsy).
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