Miller wrote: “Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons engaging in new enterprises.” 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
Wages · Heading 2147; source lines 23587–23599 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons engaging in new enterprises.
To pay out wages, denotes that you will be confounded by dissatisfaction.
To have your wages reduced, warns you of unfriendly interest that is being taken against you.
An increase of wages, suggests unusual profit in any undertaking.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Wages · Dream section, heading 578; source lines 2078–2081 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a workingman to dream that he has had his wages reduced, signifies that he is about to be removed to a more lucrative situation. To dream that he has had his wages advanced, denotes that he will shortly be without employment.
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