Tears
Tears — the body's overflow of feeling — often touch an affliction soon enveloping you, with your sorrows affecting others, though some read tears of sympathy as being loved. The dream may ask where grief is brimming over in you, and whether the weeping reflects coming hardship or the depth of feeling that draws others toward you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tears, 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 in tears, denotes that some affliction will soon envelope you.
To see others shedding tears, foretells that your sorrows will affect the happiness of others,
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of shedding tears of sympathy, is a sign that some one is in love with you; this applies to both sexes, but more particularly to girls who cry easy: if you imagine you cry from grief, some good fortune awaits you, and you will have riches in proportion to the tears shed: if you dream that you shed tears from vexation, it shows that you will experience a loss just in proportion to the tears, or that some one will injure your prospects by circulating a scandal.