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Lazy

Lazy

Laziness in a dream often touches a costly slackness — mistakes in forming enterprises, keen disappointment from effort withheld. The dream may ask where inaction is undermining what you meant to build, whether drifting is discouraging the very things you hope to attract, and what's being lost to a reluctance to rouse yourself and act.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lazy, 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 feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake in the formation of enterprises, and will suffer keen disappointment.

For a young woman to think her lover is lazy, foretells she will have bad luck in securing admiration. Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream that you see lazy people lounging around, and that you are vexed with them, is a sign of bad luck to some of your relatives, who will depend upon you to assist them: if, in your dream, you imagine yourself to be lazy and sleepy over your work, it foretells either sickness or that you will meet with a loss.