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Cot

Cot

A cot — a narrow, spare bed — often touches affliction and the vulnerability of sickness or accident. The dream may ask where you feel laid low, and whether, in rows of cots, the comfort you find is in knowing you don't suffer alone, that friends are bearing their own burdens alongside yours.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

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

To dream of a cot, foretells some affliction, either through sickness or accident. Cots in rows signify you will not be alone in trouble, as friends will be afflicted also.