Balloon
The balloon rises beautifully but at the mercy of the wind, and in dreams it often marks blighted hopes or ventures too airy to hold — visionary things that do not come to ground. The dream tends to ask what we have set our hopes on, and whether it has the substance to carry us or will simply drift.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for balloon, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream. Business of every character will sustain an apparent falling off.
To ascend in a balloon, denotes an unfortunate journey.
Fontaine, 1862
Signifies you will undertake many visionary things in business, and success will not attend you.