Samples
Samples — small portions standing for the whole — often touch improvement in business, with embarrassment if a travelling man loses his. The dream may ask where a taste of something larger is reaching you, and whether the pieces in your hands point toward growth and fresh chances or, if lost, toward trouble in your dealings.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for samples, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of receiving merchandise samples, denotes improvement in your business. For a traveling man to lose his samples, implies he will find himself embarrassed in business affairs, or in trouble through love engagements. For a woman to dream that she is examining samples sent her, denotes she will have chances to vary her amusements.