Asceticism
Asceticism in a dream — the embrace of self-denial and strange discipline — can mark a turn toward principles that fascinate outsiders yet estrange those close to us. The dream tends to ask what we are renouncing, and whether the path of severity is drawing us nearer to ourselves or away from those we love.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for asceticism, 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 of asceticism, denotes that you will cultivate strange principles and views, rendering yourself fascinating to strangers, but repulsive to friends.