Flower
Flowers in dreams often carry the emotional texture of how we tend our inner life—what blooms, what wilts, what receives our care. A garden flourishing may reflect vitality and hope, while withered petals sometimes ask whether we've been neglecting something tender within ourselves.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for flower, 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 seeing flowers blooming in gardens, signifies pleasure and gain, if bright-hued and fresh; white denotes sadness. Withered and dead flowers, signify disappointments and gloomy situations.
For a young woman to receive a bouquet of mixed flowers, foretells that she will have many admirers.
To see flowers blooming in barren soil without vestage of foliage, foretells you will have some grievous experience, but your energy and cheerfulness will enable you to climb through these to prominence and happiness.
``Held in slumber's soft embrace, She enters realms of flowery grace, Where tender love and fond caress, Bids her awake to happiness.''
[74] See Bouquet.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Blossom.) To dream you are gathering flowers, is a very favorable omen: expect to thrive in every thing you undertake, and that you will be successful in love, marry happily, and have beautiful children; should the flowers wither under your hands, it foretells heavy losses in trade; that your sweetheart will die; or if you are married, that you will lose your husband or wife, or perhaps your favorite child.
Anonymous, 1894
Flowers.—To dream you are gathering flowers is a very favorable omen; expect to thrive in everything you undertake, and that you will be successful in love, marry happily, and have beautiful children; should they wither under your hands, then heavy losses in trade; that your sweetheart will die; or, if you are married, that you will lose your husband or wife, and also your favorite child.