Present
Receiving presents often touches being unusually fortunate, though some read a gift by contraries toward disappointment. The dream may ask where something is being given to you, and whether the offering arriving in your hands is the windfall it appears to be or carries strings, expectations, or a letdown folded inside its wrapping.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for present, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To receive presents in your dreams, denotes that you will be unusually fortunate.
[172] See Gifts.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of receiving a present, is usually a sign of disappointment; but if a married woman dreams that she is presented with fruit, it shows that she will soon become pregnant: if a girl imagines she is presented by her lover with gold jewelry, it predicts that he covets the possession of her person rather than her heart.