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Beer

Beer

Beer in a dream often carries disappointment — drinking from a bar marks hopes displaced, and the old books tie it to domestic troubles. The dream tends to touch the bittersweet of easy comfort, and to ask whether what we are drinking in for solace is quietly working against the peace of our home.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for beer, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

Fateful of disappointments if drinking from a bar. To see others drinking, work of designing intriguers will displace your fairest hopes.

To habitue's of this beverage, harmonious prospectives are foreshadowed, if pleasing, natural and cleanly conditions survive. The dream occurrences frequently follow in the actual.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream you are drinking beer, is a sure sign of domestic troubles.