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What does it mean to dream about violets?

To see violets in your dreams, or gather them, brings joyous occasions in which you will find favor with some superior person. For a young woman to gather them, denotes that she will soon meet her future husband.

The full entry for “Violets”

To see violets in your dreams, or gather them, brings joyous occasions in which you will find favor with some superior person. For a young woman to gather them, denotes that she will soon meet her future husband. To see them dry, or withered, denotes that her love will be scorned and thrown aside.

— Gustavus Hindman Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; or, What's in a Dream (1901). Public domain.

How Dreamlore reads a dream about violets

A dictionary entry is one symbol on its own. In a real dream, violets 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 violets?

To see violets in your dreams, or gather them, brings joyous occasions in which you will find favor with some superior person. For a young woman to gather them, denotes that she will soon meet her future husband.

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 violets.

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.