Lottery
A lottery often touches the lure of fortune left to chance — a worthless enterprise dressed as opportunity, anxiety even in winning. The dream may ask where you're staking hope on luck rather than effort, and whether the designing people drawn to such games are leading you toward gain or quiet loss.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lottery, 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 lottery, and that you are taking great interest in the drawing, you will engage in some worthless enterprise, which will cause you to make an unpropitious journey. If you hold the lucky number, you will gain in a speculation which will perplex and give you much anxiety.
To see others winning in a lottery, denotes convivialities and amusements, bringing many friends together.
If you lose in a lottery, you will be the victim of designing persons. Gloomy depressions in your affairs will result.
For a young woman to dream of a lottery in any way, denotes that her careless way of doing things will bring her disappointment, and a husband who will not be altogether reliable or constant.
To dream of a lottery, denotes you will have unfavorable friendships in business. Your love affairs will produce temporary pleasure.