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Wager

Wager

A wager — staking on chance — often touches resorting to dishonest means for your schemes, with injury from low connections if you lose but restored fortune if you win. The dream may ask where you're betting on an uncertain outcome, and whether the gamble reinstates you in fortune's favour or drags you down through the company it draws.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for wager, 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 dream of making a wager, signifies that you will resort to dishonest means to forward your schemes.

If you lose a wager, you will sustain injury from base connections with those out of your social sphere.

To win one, reinstates you in favor with fortune.

If you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged and prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances.