Paint and Painting
Paint and painting often touch plans that succeed in a freshly painted house, but illusion and false friends in beautiful pictures. The dream may ask where you're brightening a surface toward a hoped-for outcome, and whether the lovely image before you is honest or a pretty deception about to disappoint.
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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 paint and painting, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see newly painted houses in dreams, foretells that you will succeed with some devised plan.
To have paint on your clothing, you will be made unhappy by the thoughtless criticisms of others.
To dream that you use the brush yourself, denotes that you will be well pleased with your present occupation.
To dream of seeing beautiful paintings, denotes that friends will assume false positions towards you, and you will find that pleasure is illusive.
For a young woman to dream of painting a picture, she will be deceived in her lover, as he will transfer his love to another.