Bosom
The bosom is tenderness, nurture, and the heart's keeping-place, and in dreams a wound there can touch a gathering affliction, while soiling or shrinking marks a loss of warmth. The dream tends to touch what we hold close and cherish, and to ask what threatens the soft, protected centre of our feeling.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for bosom, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
For a young woman to dream that her bosom is wounded, foretells that some affliction is threatening her.
To see it soiled or shrunken, she will have a great disappointment in love and many rivals will vex her. If it is white and full she is soon to be possessed of fortune. If her lover is slyly observing it through her sheer corsage, she is about to come under the soft persuasive influence of a too ardent wooer.