Tea
Tea often gestures toward the texture of social life — its rituals, its warmth, its subtle tensions. Whether the cup feels comforting or bitter may reveal how intimacy and belonging rest with you now, or where connection has grown stale.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tea, 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 are brewing tea, foretells that you will be guilty of indiscreet actions, and will feel deeply remorseful.
To see your friends drinking tea, and you with them, denotes that social pleasures will pall on you, and you will seek to change your feelings by serving others in their sorrows.
To see dregs in your tea, warns you of trouble in love, and affairs of a social nature.
To spill tea, is a sign of domestic confusion and grief.
To find your tea chest empty, unfolds much disagreeable gossip and news.
To dream that you are thirsty for tea, denotes that you will be surprised with uninvited guests.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of drinking tea, or being present at a tea-party, is a sign of thrift and domestic happiness: a girl who dreams of meeting her lover at such a party, or of drinking tea with him, may be sure that he's all right, and she can close her matrimonial bargain with him at once without any risk.