Afraid
To feel afraid to go on in a dream — to hesitate before some affair or journey — surfaces our doubt at the threshold. It can mirror trouble close to home, or enterprises that feel uncertain. The dream often asks what we are hesitating before, and whether the fear is guarding us or simply holding us still.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for afraid, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue a journey, denotes that you will find trouble in your household, and enterprises will be unsuccessful.
To see others afraid, denotes that some friend will be deterred from performing some favor for you because of his own difficulties.
For a young woman to dream that she is afraid of a dog, there will be a possibility of her doubting a true friend.