Squinting
Squinting — looking with narrowed, sidelong eyes — often touches annoyance from unpleasant people, with risk of loss through seeking others' favours. The dream may ask where a distorted, sideways gaze is signalling something amiss, and whether the favour being squinted at is worth the risk to reputation or fortune it carries.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for squinting, 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 that you see some person with squinting eyes, denotes that you will be annoyed with unpleasant people.
For a man to dream that his sweetheart, or some good-looking girl, squints her eyes at him, foretells that he is threatened with loss by seeking the favors of women. For a young woman to have this dream about men, she will be in danger of losing her fair reputation.
Fontaine, 1862
If a girl dreams of seeing a good-looking young man who squints, it is a sign that some one has fallen in love with her, and only waits an opportunity to demonstrate his passion: if a gentleman dreams that his sweetheart squints, it foretells that she is thinking about some one else rather than him.