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Heat

Heat

Oppressive heat often touches a betrayal that thwarts your designs — a friend's failure leaving you to wilt, or someone preparing to turn on you. The dream may ask where you feel suffocated and held back, whose unreliability is sapping your plans, and what mounting pressure is making it hard to carry out what you'd set yourself to do.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

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

To dream that you are oppressed by heat, denotes failure to carry out designs on account of some friend betraying you. Heat is not a very favorable dream.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If you dream of being in a place that is extremely hot, or if the weather is so hot that the heat affects you, it shows that some person is preparing either to attack you or give you a good scolding.