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Wine

Wine

Wine in dreams often touches on celebration, abundance, or the loosening of social bonds—though it can just as easily hint at excess or a thirst for pleasure that unsettles you. The question may be less about the wine itself and more about what you're seeking to fill, or what you're willing to pour out.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for wine, 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 drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships.

To dream of breaking bottles of wine, foretells that your love and passion will border on excess.

To see barrels of wine, prognosticates great luxury. To pour it from one vessel into another, signifies that your enjoyments will be varied and you will journey to many notable places.

To dream of dealing in wine denotes that your occupation will be remunerative.

For a young woman to dream of drinking wine, indicates she will marry a wealthy gentleman, but withal honorable.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of drinking wine is a sign of poverty: if a lover dreams that his sweetheart treats him to a glass of wine, it foretells that she will be an unthrifty wife.