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Opium medallion
Opium

Opium

Opium — the seductive narcotic — often touches strangers obstructing your fortune by sly and seductive means, with sickness and poverty in another reading. The dream may ask where something alluring is dulling you and blocking your improvement, and whether the sweet obstruction you're drawn to is quietly draining your prospects.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for opium, 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 dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances of improving your fortune, by sly and seductive means.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of this drug foretells sickness and poverty: if you imagine that you see some one under the influence of opium, and in danger of dying, it foretells a misfortune either to yourself or some near relative.