Heart
The heart in dreams often speaks to vulnerability — the tender center where love, grief, and fear intermingle without our permission. Whether aching or whole, animal or human, it may ask: what feels too exposed right now, or what courage quietly asks to be acknowledged?
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for heart, 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 your heart paining and suffocating you, there will be trouble in your business. Some mistake of your own will bring loss if not corrected.
Seeing your heart, foretells sickness and failure of energy.
To see the heart of an animal, you will overcome enemies and merit the respect of all.
To eat the heart of a chicken, denotes strange desires will cause you to carry out very difficult projects for your advancement.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of a heart is a bad omen. If you lose your heart it signifies sickness and death. To the married it denotes infidelity of their marital vows. To dream you see a human heart shows you are sincerely beloved; but to dream you have a pain or palpitation in your heart shows you are doomed to suffer through treachery.