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Inn

Inn

An inn — rest among strangers — often touches the quality of a passage: well-furnished, it promises prosperity; dilapidated, poor success and unhappy journeys. The dream may ask where you've paused along your way, whether the shelter you've found is comfortable or run-down, and what your stopping-place says about the road you're on.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for inn, 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 of an inn, denotes prosperity and pleasures, if the inn is commodious and well furnished.

To be at a dilapidated and ill kept inn, denotes poor success, or mournful tasks, or unhappy journeys.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of being at an inn, is very unfavorable; it denotes poverty and unsuccessfulness in business; to the lover, the unfaithfulness of his sweetheart; to the tradesman, loss of business and dishonest agents.