Shells
Shells gathered along the shore often touch extravagance, leaving you nothing but exasperating regrets and memories. The dream may ask where you're collecting pretty but empty things at real cost, and whether the pleasures you're indulging will, once the tide of enjoyment goes out, leave only the hollow casings of what you spent.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shells, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To walk among and gather shells in your dream, denotes extravagance. Pleasure will leave you naught but exasperating regrets and memories.
[201] See Mussels and Oysters.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you find an empty shell is a sign you will meet with losses in business, but if, in your dream, you imagine the shell to be full, it foretells you will be successful in all your undertakings.