Embrace
An embrace often touches closeness and its complications — affection that can hold warmth or, offered coldly, signal dissension. The dream may ask whom you're drawing near and how the gesture truly feels, whether the arms around you carry love or strain, and what an embrace given to a stranger says about who you're letting in.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for embrace, 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 embracing your husband or wife, as the case may be, in a sorrowing or indifferent way, denotes that you will have dissensions and accusations in your family, also that sickness is threatened.
To embrace relatives, signifies their sickness and unhappiness.
For lovers to dream of embracing, foretells quarrels and disagreements arising from infidelity. If these dreams take place under auspicious conditions, the reverse may be expected.
If you embrace a stranger, it signifies that you will have an unwelcome guest.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of embracing relatives is a warning of treachery; if friends, disappointments; if one unknown embrace you, you will travel; the embrace of a woman brings good luck.