Above
To see something hanging above — poised, about to fall — gathers up suspense and the sense of a thing not yet resolved. It may mark a narrow escape, or simply the tension of waiting for what hangs over us to settle. The older books read it both as warning and, where the thing rises rather than falls, as fortunes about to improve.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for above, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see anything hanging above you, and about to fall, implies danger; if it falls upon you it may be ruin or sudden disappointment. If it falls near, but misses you, it is a sign that you will have a narrow escape from loss of money, or other misfortunes may follow.
Should it be securely fixed above you, so as not to imply danger, your condition will improve after threatened loss.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you see any thing hanging above you signifies you will improve in your worldly prospects, and soon be in a better situation than you were before you had the dream.