Prayer
Prayer in dreams often surfaces when the dreamer feels helpless or hopes for something beyond their control—a wish for intervention, or simply the need to voice what's too hard to say aloud. Sometimes it's less about the divine and more about acknowledging you can't fix everything alone.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for prayer, 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 saying prayers, or seeing others doing so, foretells you will be threatened with failure, which will take strenuous efforts to avert.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of prayer, or of joining in a prayer with others, is a sign you will ask a favor of some one who will refuse you: if you dream of hearing prayers at church, or in any public place, it shows that you will be requested to do something which you will refuse to do, and thereby make an enemy.