Courtship
Courtship often touches the ache of being pursued amid illusory hope — the wait for a promise that may not come, pleasure that proves fleeting. The dream may ask where you're entertaining expectations that keep disappointing you, and whether the attentions you're caught up in are leading anywhere real or simply circling.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for courtship, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Bad, bad, will be the fate of the woman who dreams of being courted. She will often think that now he will propose, but often she will be disappointed. Disappointments will follow illusory hopes and fleeting pleasures. For a man to dream of courting, implies that he is not worthy of a companion.