Miller wrote: “To dream of being thirsty, shows that you are aspiring to things beyond your present reach.” Compare 5 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
Thirst · Heading 2012; source lines 22238–22247 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being thirsty, shows that you are aspiring to things beyond your present reach; but if your thirst is quenched with pleasing drinks, you will obtain your wishes.
To see others thirsty and drinking to slake it, you will enjoy many favors at the hands of wealthy people.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Thirst · Heading 793; source line 4895 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If any one dream of thirst or of drinking water, if the water appear clear and acceptable, he will live joyfully and become wealthy; if the water be troubled, warm, or offensive, it forewarns him that without prudence, he will end his days in affliction.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Thirst · Dream section, heading 519; source lines 1883–1887 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If any one dreams his thirst is quenched, and that he has drank his fill of water, if the water appeared clear and acceptable to him, he will live joyfully and become very wealthy; if the water be troubled, lukewarm, stinking or dirty, he will end his days in affliction.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Thirst · Dream section, heading 426; source lines 4892–4894 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being thirsty is a sign of affliction.
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
Thirst · Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12215–12219 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To quench with clear water, sound sleep, contentment; to drink tepid or foul water, discomfort lasting through the night (Gypsy). A gypsy interpretation coinciding with the ultra-modern school.
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