Singing
Singing in dreams often carries its own emotional reversal — joy sung aloud can hint at loneliness or doubt beneath the surface, while melancholy songs sometimes acknowledge grief making way for relief. The mood of the song matters less than whether you feel truly heard, by yourself or by others listening.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for singing, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To hear singing in your dreams, betokens a cheerful spirit and happy companions. You are soon to have promising news from the absent.
If you are singing while everything around you gives promise of happiness, jealousy will insinuate a sense of insincerity into your joyousness. If there are notes of sadness in the song, you will be unpleasantly surprised at the turn your affairs will take.
Ribald songs, signifies gruesome and extravagant waste.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of singing solemn music in a choir, is a sign of the death of a young girl who is your esteemed friend or relative: to lovers, such a dream foretells the loss of sweethearts: if you imagine you are singing some lively tune by yourself, it is a sign of sorrow, though it may not be connected with any death.
Anonymous, 1894
Singing.—To dream you are singing shows that you will hear shortly some very melancholy news; to the lover, your sweetheart is bad tempered and unfaithful; to the tradesman, losses by sharpers. To dream that you only hear singing and merry making shows that you will have some agreeable news from a person long absent; if you are in a prison, it foretells you will speedily regain your liberty.