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Shot

Shot

Being shot and feeling yourself dying often touches unexpected abuse from friends' ill feeling, with reconciliation later if you wake before death. The dream may ask where a wounding hostility from those close is catching you off guard, and whether the rift opening with a friend might yet be healed once the worst has passed.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shot, 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 dream that you are shot, and are feeling the sensations of dying, denotes that you are to meet unexpected abuse from the ill feelings of friends, but if you escape death by waking, you will be fully reconciled with them later on.

To dream that a preacher shoots you, signifies that you will be annoyed by some friend advancing views condemnatory to those entertained by yourself.