Portrait
A portrait of a beautiful person often touches pleasure shadowed by the disquieting treachery of such joys, with loss to your affairs after. The dream may ask where you're gazing on a fixed image of beauty or perfection, and whether the lovely, flattering likeness you're drawn to conceals something untrustworthy beneath its surface.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for portrait, 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 gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person, denotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you can but feel the disquieting and treacherousness of such joys. Your general affairs will suffer loss after dreaming of portraits.
[169] See Pictures, Photographs, and Paintings.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of having your portrait taken, is a sign some one will compliment your good looks; but if you are dissatisfied and think it a bad likeness, the compliment will run in a contrary direction, and you will be called frightfully ugly-looking behind your back.