Amputation
Amputation in a dream is the cutting away of a part — and it rarely concerns the body alone. It can mark a loss of role, capacity, or standing, the painful removal of something once relied upon. The dream tends to ask what is being severed, and how we will move once it is gone.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for amputation, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Ordinary amputation of limbs, denotes small offices lost; the loss of entire legs or arms, unusual depression in trade. To seamen, storm and loss of property. Afflicted persons should be warned to watchfulness after this dream.