Acquaintance
An acquaintance appearing in a dream often signals unresolved social tension or a quality you've half-noticed in yourself—something familiar but not intimate enough to name. The mood of the encounter matters most: ease can reflect inner harmony, while friction may ask where you feel misunderstood or out of step with your own life.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for acquaintance, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To meet an acquaintance, and converse pleasantly with him, foretells that your business will run smoothly, and there will be but little discord in your domestic affairs.
If you seem to be disputing, or engaged in loud talk, humiliations and embarrassments will whirl seethingly around you.
If you feel ashamed of meeting an acquaintance, or meet him at an inopportune time, it denotes that you will be guilty of illicitly conducting yourself, and other parties will let the secret out.
For a young woman to think that she has an extensive acquaintance, signifies that she will be the possessor of vast interests, and her love will be worthy the winning. If her circle of acquaintances is small, she will be unlucky in gaining social favors.
[9] After dreaming of acquaintances, you may see or hear from them.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you quarrel or fight with an acquaintance, forebodes divisions in your own family; in love, unfaithfulness; and losses in business.
Anonymous, 1894
Acquaintance.—To dream you quarrel or fight with an acquaintance is unlucky; it forebodes a division amongst your own family, much to the injury and prejudice of the dreamer; if you are in love, your sweetheart will prove unfaithful, and marry some one else; if you are in business, heavy loss will befall you, and you will disagree with some of your best friends on the most trivial matters; if you have a law-suit, your attorney will neglect you, your witnesses will be tardy and backward, and finally you will lose your cause. Do not for some time undertake a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, or enter into new undertakings, for you will be unsuccessful; leave, if you can, your present place of residence, and, above all, avoid lending money, for you will surely lose it, together with the friendship of those to whom you lend it.