Miller wrote: “To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships.” 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
Wine · Heading 2224; source lines 24444–24460 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships.
To dream of breaking bottles of wine, foretells that your love and passion will border on excess.
To see barrels of wine, prognosticates great luxury. To pour it from one vessel into another, signifies that your enjoyments will be varied and you will journey to many notable places.
To dream of dealing in wine denotes that your occupation will be remunerative.
For a young woman to dream of drinking wine, indicates she will marry a wealthy gentleman, but withal honorable.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Wine · Heading 869; source line 5280 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of drinking wine is a sign of poverty: if a lover dreams that his sweetheart treats him to a glass of wine, it foretells that she will be an unthrifty wife.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Wine · Dream section, heading 470; source lines 5004–5007 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of drinking wine means a disappointment; to become intoxicated means disgrace.
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
Wine · Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12579–12584 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of drinking, health, wealth, etc. (Gypsy). To dream of drinking in moderation might well imply strength and refreshment through sensory stimuli. Some dream interpreters translate this as a forecast of the dreamer's marriage.
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