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Toys

Toys

Toys — the small joys of childhood — often touch family joys if whole and new, but heartrending sorrow if broken, with a happy marriage if children play with them. The dream may ask where simple, innocent delight is present in your home, and whether the playthings are bright and intact, promising gladness, or broken, touching grief.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for toys, 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 see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new, but if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow.

To see children at play with toys, marriage of a happy nature is indicated.

To give away toys in your dreams, foretells you will be ignored in a social way by your acquaintances.