Jumping-jack
A jumping-jack — the puppet that twitches on its strings — often touches idleness and trivial pastime crowding out serious plans. The dream may ask where you're being jerked through empty motions, what frivolous distraction occupies thoughts that should be elsewhere, and whether you're acting from your own purpose or capering to impulse.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for jumping-jack, 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 a jumping-jack, denotes that idleness and trivial pastimes will occupy your thoughts to the exclusion of serious and sustaining plans.