Obligation
An obligation — a duty you've taken on — often touches being fretted by others' thoughtless complaints if you bind yourself, or winning regard if others bind themselves to you. The dream may ask where you've committed to something now drawing grievance, and whether the ties of duty around you are earning goodwill or weighing you down.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for obligation, 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 obligating yourself in any incident, denotes that you will be fretted and worried by the thoughtless complaints of others.
If others obligate themselves to you, it portends that you will win the regard of acquaintances and friends.