Distance
Distance often touches journeys and the strangers met far from home — the pull of travel, and the changes, fair or unfortunate, that new acquaintances bring. The dream may ask what long passage lies ahead of you, who you might meet at the edges of the familiar, and whether the far country you're drawn toward will lift you or unsettle you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for distance, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of being a long way from your residence, denotes that you will make a journey soon in which you may meet many strangers who will be instrumental in changing life from good to bad.
To dream of friends at a distance, denotes slight disappointments.
To dream of distance, signifies travel and a long journey. To see men plowing with oxen at a distance, across broad fields, denotes advancing prosperity and honor. For a man to see strange women in the twilight, at a distance, and throwing kisses to him, foretells that he will enter into an engagement with a new acquaintance, which will result in unhappy exposures.