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Forsaking

Forsaking

Forsaking home or friend often touches the cooling of regard that can come with closeness — an estimate that drops as familiarity grows. The dream may ask where your feeling for someone is fading on better acquaintance, what you're tempted to leave behind, and whether disillusion is quietly replacing the affection you once felt sure of.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for forsaking, 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

For a young woman to dream of forsaking her home or friend, denotes that she will have troubles in love, as her estimate of her lover will decrease with acquaintance and association.

[76] See Abandoned and Lover.