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Rent

Rent

Rent — the recurring price of a place to be — often touches profitable new contracts in renting a house, satisfaction in paying, but ill luck if you can't. The dream may ask where you're meeting the ongoing cost of holding your ground, and whether your obligations are within reach or beginning to outpace what you can cover.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rent, 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 that you rent a house, is a sign that you will enter into new contracts, which will prove profitable.

To fail to rent out property, denotes that there will be much inactivity in business.

To pay rent, signifies that your financial interest will be satisfactory.

If you can't pay your rent, it is unlucky for you, as you will see a falling off in trade, and social pleasures will be of little benefit.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of paying your rent foretells that you will get some money unexpectedly; but if you dream that you owe it, without having the money to pay, and are worried in consequence, it foreshadows a loss of property.