Counting
Counting often touches the impulse to account for what's yours — children, money, the tally of what you can control or owe. The dream may ask what you're measuring and reassuring yourself you still hold, and whether counting for yourself brings security while counting out to others quietly hints at loss.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for counting, 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 counting your children, and they are merry and sweet-looking, denotes that you will have no trouble in controlling them, and they will attain honorable places.
To dream of counting money, you will be lucky and always able to pay your debts; but to count out money to another person, you will meet with loss of some kind. Such will be the case, also, in counting other things. If for yourself, good; if for others, usually bad luck will attend you.