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Yearn

Yearn

Yearning — aching for someone's presence — often touches soon hearing comforting tidings from absent friends, with a long-wished-for proposal for a young woman whose lover yearns. The dream may ask where a deep longing reaches toward someone far from you, and whether the ache is the prelude to a welcome word you've hoped to hear.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for yearn, 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 feel in a dream that you are yearning for the presence of anyone, denotes that you will soon hear comforting tidings from your absent friends.

For a young woman to think her lover is yearning for her, she will have the pleasure of soon hearing some one making a long-wished-for proposal. If she lets him know that she is yearning for him, she will be left alone and her longings will grow apace.