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Picnic

Picnic

A picnic — easy pleasure in the open air — often touches success and real enjoyment, undivided happiness for the young, unless storms break in. The dream may ask where simple, shared delight is on offer to you, and whether some interfering element might temporarily displace the assured profit and pleasure the gathering otherwise promises.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for picnic, 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 attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment.

Dreams of picnics, bring undivided happiness to the young.

Storms, or any interfering elements at a picnic, implies the temporary displacement of assured profit and pleasure in love or business.

[155] See Kindred Words.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

For a young man to dream of going with a pic-nic party into the woods, is a sign that some silly girl will fall in love with him: if a young girl dreams this, some vain fellow will probably pay her attentions and compliments merely to gratify his own vanity.