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Load

Load

Carrying a load often touches a long life of laborious love and charity — or, falling under it, the inability to provide for those depending on you. The dream may ask what weight you're bearing for others, whether you can carry it the distance or feel yourself buckling, and how the burden reflects your devotion and its limits.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for load, 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 that you carry a load, signifies a long existence filled with labors of love and charity.

To fall under a load, denotes your inability to attain comforts that are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence.

To see others thus engaged, denotes trials for them in which you will be interested.