Reading
Reading in a dream often touches excelling at work that appears difficult, with kind, well-disposed friends in seeing others read. The dream may ask where absorbed, focused study is preparing you to master something hard, and whether the quiet labour of understanding is the very thing that will carry you to a success others doubted.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for reading, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To be engaged in reading in your dreams, denotes that you will excel in some work, which appears difficult.
To see others reading, denotes that your friends will be kind, and are well disposed.
To give a reading, or to discuss reading, you will cultivate your literary ability.
Indistinct, or incoherent reading, implies worries and disappointments.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are reading, indicates you will be successful in your love; in trade, it is particularly propitious; but if it appear to be painful or irksome to read, it signifies that you shall not succeed without exertion.