Triplets
Triplets often arrive in dreams when life feels overwhelming yet strangely fertile—three paths, three outcomes, three versions of the same hope multiplying at once. The feeling matters more than the number: does abundance here promise support, or does it whisper of being stretched too thin across too many needs?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for triplets, 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 seeing triplets, foretells success in affairs where failure was feared.
For a man to dream that his wife has them, signifies a pleasant termination to some affair which has been long in dispute.
To hear newly-born triplets crying, signifies disagreements which will be hastily reconciled to your pleasure.
For a young woman to dream that she has triplets, denotes that she will suffer loss and disappointment in love, but will succeed to wealth.
Fontaine, 1862
If a woman dreams that she gives birth to three children at one parturition, it foretells riches and honors: if a husband dreams that his wife is so delivered, the omen is the same: if any one dreams of seeing triplets who are healthy and well-formed, it foretells good luck and success, particularly in love matters.