Labor
Labor — toil, your own or others' — often touches the favourable outlook that effort earns, and the justice owed to those who work for you. The dream may ask where honest exertion is grounding you, whether you're fair to those laboring on your behalf, and what bountiful return steady, robust work might bring across your undertakings.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for labor, 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 that you watch domestic animals laboring under heavy burdens, denotes that you will be prosperous, but unjust to your servants, or those employed by you.
To see men toiling, signifies profitable work, and robust health. To labor yourself, denotes favorable outlook for any new enterprise, and bountiful crops if the dreamer is interested in farming.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are hard at work, shows you will go a painful journey, unless you be very circumspect; but to see others at work, betokens good fortune. If a girl dreams she sees her lover at work, it signifies that he will try and seduce her.