Cellar
A cold, damp cellar in a dream marks being oppressed by doubts, a loss of confidence in all things. The old books also tie it to sickness and an unlucky lawsuit. The dream tends to touch the dark, low room beneath the house of the self, and to ask what buried unease we have descended into, and what we have lost faith in down there.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cellar, 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 of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts. You will lose confidence in all things and suffer gloomy forebodings from which you will fail to escape unless you control your will. It also indicates loss of property.
To see a cellar stored with wines and table stores, you will be offered a share in profits coming from a doubtful source. If a young woman dreams of this she will have an offer of marriage from a speculator or gambler.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are in a cellar, is a sign of sickness and an unlucky law suit.