Aches
Aches in a dream are the body's quiet complaint, and they often mirror a sense of holding back, hesitating, or being worn down. A heartache can speak to distress over a love that moves too slowly. The dream tends to ask where we are stalling, and whether someone else is gaining from our delay.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for aches, 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 have aches, denotes that you are halting too much in your business, and that some other person is profiting by your ideas.
For a young woman to dream that she has the heartache, foretells that she will be in sore distress over the laggardly way her lover prosecutes his suit. If it is the backache, she will encounter illness through careless
WHAT'S IN A DREAM. 26 exposure. If she has the headache, there will be much disquietude of mind for the risk she has taken to rid herself of rivalry.
[8] This dream is usually due to physical causes and is of little significance.