Dancing
Dancing in dreams often reflects a longing for harmony or a sense of life moving fluidly again after a period of constraint. Whether you move alone or with others may reveal whether the rhythm you seek is internal permission or shared joy.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dancing, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Ball.) To dream you are dancing at a ball or entertainment, foretells that you will shortly receive joyful news; it also foretells success and happiness in love. To see others dance there, signifies pleasure and an inheritance.
Anonymous, 1894
Dancing.—To dream you are dancing at a ball, wake or entertainment foretells that you will shortly receive some joyful news from a long absent friend, or that you are about to inherit some unexpected legacy; it foretells success and happiness in love; your sweetheart is kind and true, and will make you very happy in marriage; increase of children to married persons, and of business to those in trade.