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_Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, OR, WHAT'S IN A DREAM_. A SCIENTIFIC
AND PRACTICAL EXPOSITION
{This book seems to have a different title each time it is reprinted: 1) What's in a Dream:
a Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams. G. W. Dillingham company, NY
(1901) NUC# NM0587131. 2) Dreams, Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations.
T.W. Laurie, London (1910) NUC# NM0587126. 3) Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted,
or, What's in a Dream: a Scientific and Practical Exposition. M. A. Donohue & company,
NY, [n.d.] NUC# NM0587130. (This is the closest match to this etext)}
BY GUSTAVUS HINDMAN MILLER
``In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings
upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction that he may
withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.'' --Job xxxiii., 15.

PREFACE.
``Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to
happen.''--BAILEY,
The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and revealed religion, shows traces of
a general and substantial belief in dreams. Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon
assigned to certain dreams prophetic value. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to
himself, the twelfth star. The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat and lean
cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of Herod, and fled with the
Divine Child into Egypt.
Pilate's wife, through the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to do
with the conviction of Christ. But the gross materialism of the day laughed at dreams, as
it echoed the voice and verdict of the multitude, ``Crucify the Spirit, but let the flesh
live.'' Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty.
The ultimatum of all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at
the expense of the spirit. The prophets and those who have stood nearest the fountain of
universal knowledge used dreams with more frequency than any other mode of

divination.
Profane, as well as sacred, history is threaded with incidents of dream prophecy. Ancient
history relates that Gennadius was convinced of the immortality of his soul by conversing
with an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman Senate was
induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt.
The Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror break on the
same night that Attila died.
Plutarch relates how Augustus, while ill, through the dream of a friend, was persuaded to
leave his tent,