Cooling Board
A cooling board, where the dead were once laid out, often touches mortality, grief, and the strange stirrings of those we've lost. The dream may ask what unfinished trouble connects you to someone gone or distant, and whether facing it with will and energy might yet resolve what feels unsettled.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cooling board, 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 see a cooling board in her dreams, foretells sickness and quarrels with her lover. To dream of some living person as dead and rising up from a cooling board, denotes she will be indirectly connected with that person in some trouble, but will find out that things will work out satisfactorily.
To see her brother, who has long since been dead, rising from a cooling board, warns her of complications which may be averted if she puts forth the proper will and energy in struggling against them.