Nightingale
A nightingale's song — sweetest in the dark — often touches a pleasing existence, prosperous and healthy surroundings, and favour in love. The dream may ask where beauty is sounding through a darker hour for you, and whether you can let a tender, hopeful note steady you, mindful that silence among friends hints at slight discord.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for nightingale, 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 are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale, foretells a pleasing existence, and prosperous and healthy surroundings. This is a most favorable dream to lovers, and parents.
To see nightingales silent, foretells slight misunderstandings among friends.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of this bird signifies light amours; to hear it sing, happiness.