Mourning
Mourning dress often touches ill luck and unhappiness, disturbances among friends, and, for lovers, misunderstanding — though some read it by contraries toward a coming wedding. The dream may ask what loss or grief you're clothed in, and whether the black you're wearing marks a true sorrow or, oddly, presages a celebration.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mourning, 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 that you wear mourning, omens ill luck and unhappiness.
If others wear it, there will be disturbing influences among your friends causing you unexpected dissatisfaction and loss. To lovers, this dream foretells misunderstanding and probable separation.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you are dressed in mourning for the death of a relative, is a sign that a wedding will soon take place in your family, or that of some blood relation. To see people dressed in black, and be among them, foretells an invitation to a wedding or to be present at a marriage ceremony.