Miller wrote: “To dream that you find a wall obstructing your progress, you will surely succumb to ill-favored influences…” Compare 6 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
Walls · Heading 2158; source lines 23711–23733 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you find a wall obstructing your progress, you will surely succumb to ill-favored influences and lose important victories in your affairs.
To jump over it, you will overcome obstacles and win your desires. To force a breach in a wall, you will succeed in the attainment of your wishes by sheer tenacity of purpose.
To demolish one, you will overthrow your enemies. To build one, foretells that you will carefully lay plans and will solidify your fortune to the exclusion of failure, or designing enemies.
For a young woman to walk on top of a wall, shows that her future happiness will soon be made secure. For her to hide behind a wall, denotes that she will form connections that she will be ashamed to acknowledge. If she walks beside a base wall. she will soon have run the gamut of her attractions, and will likely be deserted at a precarious time.
View source edition Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Walls · Heading 843; source line 5151 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are walking on, or climbing over walls, denotes some dangerous enterprise, trouble, and vexation: if you get down without the wall falling, or hurting yourself, you will succeed; if not, be disappointed.
View source edition A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Walls · Dream section, heading 567; source lines 2022–2032 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are walking on a crazy, old and narrow wall, denotes that you will engage in some very dangerous enterprise that will cause you much trouble and vexation. If you get down without hurting yourself, or the wall’s falling, then you will succeed. If the wall should fall whilst you are upon it, you will be disappointed. If you are walking between walls and the passage is very narrow and difficult, you will be engaged in some quarrel, or disagreeable affair, from which it will require great circumspection and caution on your part to disengage yourself. But if you get from between them safe, you will settle well in life, marry an agreeable partner, have children and become rich and happy.
View source edition Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Wall · Dream section, heading 456; source lines 4966–4969 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing a wall over which you cannot climb means prosperity after much effort.
View source edition Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Wall · Dream section, heading 239; source lines 4150–4154 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Many obstacles in realizing a future plan: (climbing over or destroying) obstacles successfully surmounted: (jumping over) joy and happiness.
View source edition 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
Walls · Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12441–12444 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of them as an impassable barrier denotes difficulties in the family; narrow walls denote danger; to ascend without injury denotes success (Raphael).
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