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Dispute

Dispute

Disputing over trifles often touches the small, draining quarrels that flare when something deeper is unwell. The dream may ask where you're spending energy on petty contention, whether you're judging others fairly, and, if you're sparring with sharper minds, what latent ability of your own you've been too sluggish to develop.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dispute, 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 holding disputes over trifles, indicates bad health and unfairness in judging others.

To dream of disputing with learned people, shows that you have some latent ability, but are a little sluggish in developing it.