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Mending

Mending

Mending — repairing what's torn or worn — often touches the effort to set a wrong right, well-timed or ill-timed depending on whether the cloth is clean. The dream may ask what damaged thing you're trying to patch, and whether this is the moment to mend it or one better left until later.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mending, 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 mending soiled garments, denotes that you will undertake to right a wrong at an inopportune moment; but if the garment be clean, you will be successful in adding to your fortune.

For a young woman to dream of mending, foretells that she will be a systematic help to her husband.