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What does it mean to dream about reprieve?
To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you will overcome some difficulty which is causing you anxiety. For a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved, denotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him, which will be of vital interest to her.
The full entry for “Reprieve”
To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you will overcome some difficulty which is causing you anxiety. For a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved, denotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him, which will be of vital interest to her.
How Dreamlore reads a dream about reprieve
A dictionary entry is one symbol on its own. In a real dream, reprieve arrives with a place, other people, and a feeling, and the meaning shifts with them. Dreamlore takes the whole dream — spoken or typed — finds the passages that actually fit it in Miller and in Freud, quotes them word-for-word, explains the symbols in context, and leaves you one reflective question. On Plus it also paints the dream from your own words. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream about reprieve?
To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you will overcome some difficulty which is causing you anxiety. For a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved, denotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him, which will be of vital interest to her.
Where does this dream meaning come from?
From Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; or, What's in a Dream (1901), a public-domain dream dictionary. The passage above is quoted verbatim; Dreamlore shows the same text, checked word-for-word against the source, when it reads a dream about reprieve.
Dreamlore and this dictionary are for reflection and curiosity. Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens; take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.