Shaking Hands
Shaking hands — the gesture of meeting and accord — often touches pleasures and distinction from strangers, or being loved for kindness when you greet those beneath you. The dream may ask whom you're reaching out to meet as an equal, and whether the connections you're forming are clean and warm or shadowed by rivalry and soiled trust.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shaking hands, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
For a young woman to dream that she shakes hands with some prominent ruler, foretells she will be surrounded with pleasures and distinction from strangers. If she avails herself of the opportunity, she will stand in high favor with friends. If she finds she must reach up to shake hands, she will find rivalry and opposition. If she has on gloves, she will overcome these obstacles.
To shake hands with those beneath you, denotes you will be loved and honored for your kindness and benevolence. If you think you or they have soiled hands, you will find enemies among seeming friends.
For a young woman to dream of shaking hands with a decrepit old man, foretells she will find trouble where amusement was sought.