Ball
A ball — music, dancing, gaily-dressed company — is a satisfying omen when the mood is bright, touching pleasure and connection. Felt with gloom amid the gaiety, it can mark a sadness that the festivity only sharpens. The dream tends to ask whether we are truly among the dancing, or apart from it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ball, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
A very satisfactory omen, if beautiful and gaily-dressed people are dancing to the strains of entrancing music. If you feel gloomy and distressed at the inattention of others, a death in the family may be expected soon.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Dancing.) If you dream you are at a ball, and are dancing with a lady, it is a sign you will marry her; if you dream that she is gone, and you are looking round to find her and cannot, it foretells that she will not live long after marriage. Dreaming of playing ball, or seeing it played, foretells the speedy receipt of money; to see the ball roll about, signifies delay in its reception.