Miller wrote: “If you use a thimble in your dreams, you will have many others to please besides yourself.” Compare 4 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
Thimble · Heading 2011; source lines 22222–22238 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you use a thimble in your dreams, you will have many others to please besides yourself. If a woman, you will have your own position to make.
To lose one, foretells poverty and trouble. To see an old or broken one, denotes that you are about to act unwisely in some momentous affair.
To receive or buy a new thimble, portends new associations in which you will find contentment.
To dream that you use an open end thimble, but find that it is closed, denotes that you will have trouble, but friends will aid you in escaping its disastrous consequences.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Thimble · Dream section, heading 425; source lines 4890–4892 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes hard work to achieve success.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Thimble · Dream section, heading 236; source lines 4135–4137 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
The loss of employment.
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
Thimble · Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12212–12214 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting a vain search after work (Gypsy).
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