Nightmare
A nightmare — the crushing dread that pins you in sleep — often touches wrangling, failure in business, and unmerited slights. The dream may ask what suffocating worry is pressing on your chest, and whether the sensation is a warning to tend your health and circumstances before the strain bears down harder.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for nightmare, 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 being attacked with this hideous sensation, denotes wrangling and failure in business. For a young woman, this is a dream prophetic of disappointment and unmerited slights. It may also warn the dreamer to be careful of her health, and food.