Abundance
To dream of abundance is to feel, for a moment, beyond the reach of want — independent, provided for, unworried by fortune. Yet the older books note the strain plenty can place on domestic peace, and even read it by contraries, as a hint of scarcity. The dream asks what we truly have, and what we fear losing.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for abundance, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you are possessed with an abundance; foretells that you will have no occasion to reproach Fortune, and that you will be independent of her future favors; but your domestic happiness may suffer a collapse under the strain you are likely to put upon it by your infidelity.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream you have an over-abundance of any thing, it goes by contrary, and is a sign of a scarcity; as if a farmer should dream that he had a great crop, it would predict a scarcity—not perhaps of that particular article of which he dreamed, but of something that would be important to him.