Silver
Silver in dreams often speaks to what we value beyond its gleam — the gap between material comfort and deeper contentment. When the metal appears, it may ask whether we've mistaken accumulation for fulfillment, or perhaps it reflects unease about what others can or cannot offer us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for silver, 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 silver, is a warning against depending too largely on money for real happiness and contentment.
To find silver money, is indicative of shortcomings in others. Hasty conclusions are too frequently drawn by yourself for your own peace of mind.
To dream of silverware, denotes worries and unsatisfied desires.
Anonymous, 1894
Silver.—To dream of this valuable metal shows that false friends are about you, and will attempt your ruin; in love, it denotes falsehood in your sweetheart. To receive or pick up pieces of silver money, if they are small, denotes want and a prison; if they are quarters, they indicate the receipt of a small sum of money, and the acquisition of some new friends; but if they are half-dollars or dollars, they denote misery, a prison and failure in your undertakings, disappointment in your love, and loss of law-suits, attacks from thieves and bankruptcy in trade. If a woman with child dreams of silver, it shows she will have a girl, but the child will grow poor.