Sweeping
Sweeping — clearing the floor of what's gathered — often touches gaining favour at home and children finding pleasure there, with distress if you neglect floors that need it. The dream may ask where the steady work of keeping your space ordered is winning goodwill, and whether neglecting that upkeep is letting trouble accumulate.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sweeping, 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 sweeping, denotes that you will gain favor in the eyes of your husband, and children will find pleasure in the home.
If you think the floors need sweeping, and you from some cause neglect them, there will be distresses and bitter disappointments awaiting you in the approaching days.
To servants, sweeping is a sign of disagreements and suspicion of the intentions of others.
Fontaine, 1862
For a girl to dream of sweeping the house, foretells that a lover will soon make his appearance: if a married woman dreams this, it shows that some outsider is charmed with her, and may venture to make dishonorable proposals.