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Shave

Shave

Contemplating a shave often touches planning enterprises well but lacking the energy to carry them through, with debt in the doing. The dream may ask where you've laid good plans you're not rousing yourself to execute, and whether the gap between intending and acting is leaving your promising schemes unfinished and stalled.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shave, 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 merely contemplate getting a shave, in your dream, denotes you will plan for the successful development of enterprises, but will fail to generate energy sufficient to succeed.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

For a man to dream that he is shaving, is a sign he will get in debt: to dream that any one shaved you in a bargain, foretells that some debt will be paid to you which you had given up as lost.