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What does it mean to dream about a ghost?
Seeing a ghost, often of a parent or someone who has died, is a dream many people remember for days. Miller's entry on ghosts is below, quoted exactly.
What Miller wrote (1901)
To dream of the ghost of either one of your parents, denotes that you are exposed to danger, and you should be careful in forming partnerships with strangers. … To see the ghost of a dead friend, foretells that you will make a long journey with an unpleasant companion, and suffer disappointments. For a ghost to speak to you, you will be decoyed into the hands of enemies.
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What does it mean to dream about a ghost?
Miller's 1901 dictionary reads the ghost of a parent as danger and a warning to be careful with strangers, the ghost of a dead friend as a long journey with an unpleasant companion, and a ghost that speaks to you as being decoyed by enemies. Dreams of someone who has died are often about grief and memory; these old readings are a starting point for reflection, not a message from the dead.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.