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Rattan Cane

Rattan Cane

A rattan cane — a flexible support to lean on — often touches depending too largely on others' judgment, with a call to cultivate independence. The dream may ask where you're propping yourself on someone else's thinking, and whether it's time to plan your own affairs rather than leaning on a support that bends as another wills it.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rattan cane, 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 a rattan cane, foretells that you will depend largely upon the judgment of others, and you should cultivate independence in planning and executing your own affairs.