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Musical Instruments

Musical Instruments

Musical instruments often touch anticipated pleasures, marred by uncongenial company if they're broken. The dream may ask what delights you're looking forward to, and whether the instruments of your enjoyment are sound and ready to play, or whether the company around you threatens to sour the music before it begins.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for musical instruments, 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 see musical instruments, denotes anticipated pleasures.

If they are broken, the pleasure will be marred by uncongenial companionship. For a young woman, this dream foretells for her the power to make her life what she will.