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Break

Break

Breakage in a dream is a bad omen in the old books — broken limbs marking bad management and probable failure, broken furniture touching domestic trouble. The dream tends to touch the snapping of what should hold, and to ask what in our life feels close to breaking, and whether mismanagement is straining it past its limit.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for break, 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

Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs, denotes bad management and probable failures. To break furniture, denotes domestic quarrels and an unquiet state of the mind.

To break a window, signifies bereavement. To see a broken ring order will be displaced by furious and dangerous uprisings, such as jealous contentions often cause.