Affliction
Affliction in a dream lays a heavy hand and calls our energy to a halt — a weight that can mirror trouble bearing down, or simply the seasons when strength flags. To see others afflicted can speak to the sorrows gathering around us. The dream tends to ask what is draining us, and where we might find relief.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for affliction, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that affliction lays a heavy hand upon you and calls your energy to a halt, foretells that some disaster is surely approaching you.
To see others afflicted, foretells that you will be surrounded by many ills and misfortunes.