Air
Air often carries the emotional atmosphere of a dream — the tension or ease between you and what surrounds you. Breathing freely suggests room to move forward, while thick or heavy air may reflect inner pressure, relationships that feel stifling, or ambitions meeting resistance you haven't yet named.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for air, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
This dream denotes a withering state of things, and bodes no good to the dreamer.
To dream of breathing hot air suggests that you will be influenced to evil by oppression.
To feel cold air, denotes discrepancies in your business, and incompatibility in domestic relations.
To feel oppressed with humidity, some curse will fall on you that will prostrate and close down on your optimistical views of the future.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you see it clear and serene, shows that you shall be beloved and esteemed by most people; if at law, success. In short, all good is denoted by clear and serene air. But to dream that the air is thick, cloudy, dark, and troubled, denotes to the dreamer, grief, sickness, loss of good, hindrance of business, and crosses in love.