Liquor
Liquor in dreams often carries the weight of appetite meeting consequence — the pull toward pleasure alongside questions about cost, control, or what belongs to you. Whether indulgence feels liberating or compromising may reflect how you're negotiating desire and restraint in waking life.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for liquor, 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 buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon which you have no legal claim If you sell it, you will be criticised for niggardly benevolence.
To drink some, you will come into doubtful possession of wealth, but your generosity will draw around you convivial friends, and women will seek to entrance and hold you.
To see liquor in barrels, denotes prosperity, but unfavorable tendency toward making home pleasant.
If in bottles, fortune will appear in a very tangible form.
For a woman to dream of handling, or drinking liquor, foretells for her a happy Bohemian kind of existence. She will be good natured but shallow minded. To treat others, she will be generous to rivals, and the indifference of lovers or husband will not seriously offset her pleasures or contentment.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream of seeing large quantities of liquor, or of buying brandy, rum, whisky, etc., it foretells poverty and disgrace; to dream of drinking it is the same, only worse if possible.