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Abhor

Abhor

To feel abhorrence in a dream surfaces a strong, almost involuntary dislike — and the strength of the feeling is itself the message. It may be confirming an instinct about someone we have not let ourselves name, or warning that our own good intentions are hardening into something colder. The dream asks what the revulsion is really about.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for abhor, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream that you abhor a person, denotes that you will entertain strange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his honesty will prove correct.

To think yourself held in abhorrence by others, predicts that your good intentions to others will subside into selfishness.

For a young woman to dream that her lover abhors her, foretells that she will love a man who is in no sense congenial.