Burning
Burning often marks transformation already underway — something in you demanding change, shedding what no longer serves. Whether the flames feel destructive or purifying matters more than what they consume; your own emotional temperature in the dream reveals whether this is loss or necessary clearing.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for burning, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Fire.) To see, in your dream, one or more houses burning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor, that they will become rich, and for the rich man, that his riches will be augmented; but if the fire is furious, and the houses fall down, the dreamer may expect losses, disappointments, shame, and death. To dream you burn yourself is a sign the malice of a stupid enemy will be foiled.