Swelling
Swelling — flesh grown puffed and distended — often touches amassing fortune while egotism spoils your enjoyment, with envious obstruction if others swell. The dream may ask where something is enlarging past its natural size, and whether the gains inflating your life are undercut by a self-importance that keeps you from enjoying them.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for swelling, 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 yourself swollen, denotes that you will amass fortune, but your egotism will interfere with your enjoyment.
To see others swollen, foretells that advancement will meet with envious obstructions.