Miller wrote: “To feel in a dream that you are yearning for the presence of anyone, denotes that you will soon hear comforting tidings from your absent…”
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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
Yearn · Heading 2253; source lines 24698–24708 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To feel in a dream that you are yearning for the presence of anyone, denotes that you will soon hear comforting tidings from your absent friends.
For a young woman to think her lover is yearning for her, she will have the pleasure of soon hearing some one making a long-wished-for proposal. If she lets him know that she is yearning for him, she will be left alone and her longings will grow apace.
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