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Decorate

Decorate

Decorating a place with bright flowers often touches celebration and the favourable turns worth marking — though graveside white blooms turn the meaning toward mourning. The dream may ask what you're adorning and why, whether the occasion is festive or funereal, and where worthy effort of yours may go quietly unrecognised by others.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for decorate, 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 decorating a place with bright-hued flowers for some festive occasion, is significant of favorable turns in business, and, to the young, of continued rounds of social pleasures and fruitful study.

To see the graves or caskets of the dead decorated with white flowers, is unfavorable to pleasure and worldly pursuits.

To be decorating, or see others decorate for some heroic action, foretells that you will be worthy, but that few will recognize your ability.