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Swamp

Swamp

A swamp often reflects that unsettled place where progress feels slow and the ground beneath you uncertain—emotionally murky, hard to navigate. Yet swamps are also places of strange vitality, where clarity and growth can emerge from what feels treacherous, if you're willing to move carefully through.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for swamp, 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 walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be the object of adverse circumstances. Your inheritance will be uncertain, and you will undergo keen disappointments in your love matters.

To go through a swamp where you see clear water and green growths, you will take hold on prosperity and singular pleasures, the obtaining of which will be attended with danger and intriguing.

[217] See Marsh.