Cloud
A single cloud is a smaller thing than an overcast sky — a passing shadow over otherwise clear weather, a mood or doubt that drifts in and will drift out again. Tradition tied the dark cloud to misfortune and the bright one to hope breaking through. Alone, it asks: what briefly crossed your light — and is it gathering, or already moving on?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cloud, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management. If rain is falling, it denotes troubles and sickness.
To see bright transparent clouds with the sun shining through them, you will be successful after trouble has been your companion.
To see them with the stars shining, denotes fleeting joys and small advancements.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity, clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill-issue of affairs; dark and obscure clouds, obstructions in love.