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Disease

Disease

Dreaming yourself diseased often touches a small fear about the body, or about the strain of difficult dealings with someone close. The dream may ask where you feel something wrong taking hold, whether the illness is slight or imagined graver than it is, and what unease in your relationships might be wearing on you beneath it.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for disease, 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 that you are diseased, denotes a slight attack of illness, or of unpleasant dealings with a relative.

For a young woman to dream that she is incurably diseased, denotes that she will be likely to lead a life of single blessedness.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If you dream you have any contagious or foul disease on you, it foretells luck and benefit, as such a dream goes by contrary.