Gown
A nightgown often touches a private, unguarded state — slight illness, unwelcome news of the absent, vulnerability glimpsed. The dream may ask where you feel exposed in your softer, off-duty self, what intimate frailty is surfacing, and whether being seen in your unprotected hours is bringing closeness or quietly costing you something.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for gown, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If you dream that you are in your nightgown, you will be afflicted with a slight illness. If you see others thus clad, you will have unpleasant news of absent friends. Business will receive a back set.
If a lover sees his sweetheart in her night gown, he will be superseded.
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