Miller wrote: “To dream that you are washing yourself, signifies that you pride yourself on the numberless liaisons you…” 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
Washing · Heading 2170; source lines 23854–23862 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are washing yourself, signifies that you pride yourself on the numberless liaisons you maintain. See Wash Bowl or Bathing.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Washing · Heading 848; source line 5176 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of washing, foretells change of abode, and if you wash in clear, cold water, the dream is an omen of good; but If the water is dirty or turbid, it is the reverse. If a woman dream she is washing clothes, it is a sign she will hear good news within twenty-four hours.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Washing · Dream section, heading 556; source lines 1989–1996 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a man to dream he washes or bathes himself in baths or hot-houses, signifies riches, prosperity and health to the sick. But to dream he washes or bathes himself contrary to the common custom, or in his clothes, is evil and betokeneth sickness and great danger. To dream that you were in fountains, ponds or current water, and in fair and clear floods, is good, but not that you swim, for that is a sign of danger and sickness. Washing is a sure sign of removal.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Washing · Dream section, heading 458; source lines 4971–4974 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Washing your clothes denotes that a misunderstanding will soon pass away.
Anonymous
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Washing · Dreams interpreted, passage 12; source lines 144–145 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To dream you are washing your hands, and the dirt comes clean off, signifies you shall perform some great enterprize.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Washing” because that is the subject of its first clause.
View source editionKatherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Washing · Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12464–12466 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of washing oneself denotes good after an illness, a change for the better (Gypsy).
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