Hotel
Hotels often gesture toward transition — a provisional life, identity held loosely, the self between departures. Whether the dream feels luxurious or threadbare may matter less than the question it raises: what part of you is just passing through, and what longs for a more permanent home?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for hotel, 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 living in a hotel, denotes ease and profit.
To visit women in a hotel, your life will be rather on a dissolute order.
To dream of seeing a fine hotel, indicates wealth and travel.
If you dream that you are the proprietor of a hotel, you will earn all the fortune you will ever possess.
To work in a hotel, you could find a more remunerative employment than what you have.
To dream of hunting a hotel, you will be baffled in your search for wealth and happiness.