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Driving

Driving

Driving often speaks to how much control you feel you have over the direction of your life, or how exhausting it can be to always steer. Notice whether you're behind the wheel or being carried — sometimes the dream asks if you're pushing too hard, or if you've forgotten you can rest.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for driving, 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 driving a carriage, signifies unjust criticism of your seeming extravagance. You will be compelled to do things which appear undignified.

To dream of driving a public cab, denotes menial labor, with little chance for advancement. If it is a wagon, you will remain in poverty and unfortunate circumstances for some time. If you are driven in these conveyances by others, you will profit by superior knowledge of the world, and will always find some path through difficulties. If you are a man, you will, in affairs with women, drive your wishes to a speedy consummation. If a woman, you will hold men's hearts at low value after succeeding in getting a hold on them.

[59] See Cab or Carriage.