Garden
A garden often mirrors the state of your inner world—its blooms and order reflecting what you've tended, its wildness showing what you've left alone. Whether flourishing or overgrown, the dream may be asking: what have you been cultivating in yourself, and does it still serve you?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for garden, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a garden in your dreams, filled with evergreen and flowers, denotes great peace of mind and comfort.
To see vegetables, denotes misery or loss of fortune and calumny. To females, this dream foretells that they will be famous, or exceedingly happy in domestic circles.
To dream of walking with one's lover through a garden where flowering shrubs and plants abound, indicates unalloyed happiness and independent means.
Fontaine, 1862
To see a beautiful and thrifty garden in your dream, denotes good luck and abundance: if the garden is run to weeds, you may still have luck, but much trouble and vexation will accompany it: if you see rats or pigs in the garden, it denotes thieves to annoy you.
Anonymous, 1894
Garden.—To dream you are walking in a garden is of a very favorable nature; it portends elevation in fortune and dignity; to the lover it denotes great success and an advantageous marriage; to the tradesman it promises increase of business; to the farmer, plentiful crops.