Ropes
Ropes often appear when you feel tangled in choices that bind or connect — whether to climb toward something or descend from it, whether to hold on or let go. The dream may be asking which knots you've tied yourself, and whether what feels like constraint might also be the line that pulls you through.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ropes, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs, and uncertain love making.
If you climb one, you will overcome enemies who are working to injure you.
To decend{sic} a rope, brings disappointment to your most sanguine moments.
If you are tied with them, you are likely to yield to love contrary to your judgment.
To break them, signifies your ability to overcome enmity and competition.
To tie ropes, or horses, denotes that you will have power to control others as you may wish.
To walk a rope, signifies that you will engage in some hazardous speculation, but will surprisingly succeed. To see others walking a rope, you will benefit by the fortunate ventures of others.
To jump a rope, foretells that you will startle your associates with a thrilling escapade bordering upon the sensational.
To jump rope with children, shows that you are selfish and overbearing; failing to see that children owe very little duty to inhuman parents. To catch a rope with the foot, denotes that under cheerful conditions you will be benevolent and tender in your administrations.
To dream that you let a rope down from an upper window to people below, thinking the proprietors would be adverse to receiving them into the hotel, denotes that you will engage in some affair which will not look exactly proper to your friends, but the same will afford you pleasure and interest. For a young woman, this dream is indicative of pleasures which do not bear the stamp of propriety.