Gustavus Hindman Miller

Dreaming is universal. People in all cultures have dreams and corresponding interpretations of what they might mean - a sign of the future or a message from the gods. Even in today's materialistic world, we are intrigued by the potential meaning of these visions. First published at the start of the century, 10,000 Dreams Interpreted is an exceptional handbook to dream interpretation. This illustrated edition has been expanded and revised and remains a complelling and exhaustive coompendium of the symbols that crop up in our dreamscape. The Possible Meanings of our dreams are as varied, as intricate and as infinate as our thoughts. 10,000 Dreams Interpreted is your opportunity to unlock the secret of your unconcious mind and explore the possibilibies of yor dream landscape. According to Gustavus Hindman Miller, author of 10,000 Dreams Interpreted, every symbol that appears in a dream has its own unique meaning, and without the knowledge of that meaning we will never attain a real understanding ouf our dreams. There are thousands of things we dream about that may have significant and unusual means, including: Actors, blacksmiths, crows, dolphins, elephants, fish, garlic, hogs, ice cream, jams, kangaroos, lanterns, museums, newspapers, oysters, peaches, quicksand, rain, sawdust, tattoos, umbrellas, violets, waiters, xlyophones. yachts amd zebras.

Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to happen. - BAILEY,

Contains ten thousand alphabetically-arranged entries that offer interpretations of things seen in dreams.

The possible meanings of our dreams are as varied, as intricate and as infinite as our thoughts. 10,000 Dreams Interpreted is your opportunity to unlock the secret of your unconscious mind and explore the possibilities of your dream landscape.What do our dreams mean? The language of dreams is made up mostly of visual symbols that often seem incomprehensible. 10,000 Dreams Interpreted will give you a key to help you understand those symbols and in turn the meaning of your dreams. According to the author, Gustavus Hindman Miller, every symbol that appears in a dream has its own unique meaning, and without the knowledge of that meaning, we will never attain a real understanding of our dreams. For example, did you know that if you dream of leaves it denotes happiness and improvement in business? Or if you dream of a sleigh it means you will fail in a love affair and incur the displeasure of a friend? But there are thousands more things we dream about that may have significant and unusual meanings, including (to name just a few): actors, blacksmiths, crows, dolphins, elephants, fish, garlic, hogs, ice cream, jams, lanterns, museums, newspapers, oysters, peaches, quicksand, rain, sawdust, tattoos, umbrellas, violets, waiters, yachts, and zebras.10,000 Dreams Interpreted is a unique encyclopedic handbook that will provide essential information to help you understand the richness of your dreams.

Before the dawn of history mankind was engaged in the study of dreaming. The wise man among the ancients was preeminently the interpreter of dreams. The ability to interpret successfully or plausibly was the quickest road to royal favor, as Joseph and Daniel found it to be; failure to give satisfaction in this respect led to banishment from court or death. When a scholar laboriously translates a cuneiform tablet dug up from a Babylonian mound where it has lain buried for five thousand years or more, the chances are that it will turn out either an astrological treatise or a dream book. If the former, we look upon it with some indulgence; if the latter with pure contempt. For we know that the study of the stars, though undertaken for selfish reasons and pursued in the spirit of charlatanry, led at length to physical science, while the study of dreams has proved as unprofitable as the dreaming of them. Out of astrology grew astronomy. Out of oneiromancy has grown - nothing.That at least was substantially true up to the beginning of the present century. Dream books in all languages continued to sell in cheap editions and the interpreters of dreams made a decent or, at any rate, a comfortable living out of the poorer classes. But the psychologist rarely paid attention to dreams except incidentally in his study of imagery, association and the speed of thought. But now a change has come over the spirit of the times. The subject of the significance of dreams, so long ignored, has suddenly become a matter of energetic study and of fiery controversy the world over.The cause of this revival of interest is the new point of view brought forward by Professor Bergson in the paper which is here made accessible to the English-reading public. This is the idea that we can explore the unconscious substratum of our mentality, the storehouse of our memories, by means of dreams, for these memories are by no means inert, but have, as it were, a life and purpose of their own, and strive to rise into consciousness whenever they get a chance, even into the semi-consciousness of a dream. To use Professor Bergson's striking metaphor, our memories are packed away under pressure like steam in a boiler and the dream is their escape valve.That this is more than a mere metaphor has been proved by Professor Freud and others of the Vienna school, who cure cases of hysteria by inducing the patient to give expression to the secret anxieties and emotions which, unknown to him, have been preying upon his mind. The clue to these disturbing thoughts is generally obtained in dreams or similar states of relaxed consciousness. According to the Freudians a dream always means something, but never what it appears to mean. It is symbolic and expresses desires or fears which we refuse ordinarily to admit to consciousness, either because they are painful or because they are repugnant to our moral nature. A watchman is stationed at the gate of consciousness to keep them back, but sometimes these unwelcome intruders slip past him in disguise.