Rheumatism
Rheumatism — stiff, aching joints — often touches unexpected delay in accomplishing plans, with disappointment in others' affliction, though some read it by contraries as health. The dream may ask where a slow, painful stiffness is holding up your progress, and whether the hindrance is a true setback or, oddly, a sign of better health.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rheumatism, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To feel rheumatism attacking you in a dream, foretells unexpected delay in the accomplishment of plans.
To see others so afflicted brings disappointments.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of this painful disease, is an omen of health: if you imagine a friend is thus afflicted, it shows that he will soon offer to do you a favor, or benefit you in some way.