Pictures
Pictures in dreams often speak to how we frame our own story, the versions of ourselves we present or preserve. When images appear vividly, perhaps ask what you long to show the world, and what quietly refuses to be captured.
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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 pictures, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries.
To make a picture, denotes that you will engage in some unremunerative enterprise.
To destroy pictures, means that you will be pardoned for using strenuous means to establish your rights.
To buy them, foretells worthless speculation.
To dream of seeing your likeness in a living tree, appearing and disappearing, denotes that you will be prosperous and seemingly contented, but there will be disappointments in reaching out for companionship and reciprocal understanding of ideas and plans.
To dream of being surrounded with the best efforts of the old and modern masters, denotes that you will have insatiable longings and desires for higher attainments, compared to which present success will seem poverty-stricken and miserable.
[156] See Painting and Photographs.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of seeing pictures is a sign of joy without profit.