Church
Churches in dreams often hold whatever feeling the dreamer brings to threshold spaces — reverence, dread, longing for structure, or grief over what's been lost. The distance between you and its doors may matter more than the building itself, asking whether you're seeking shelter or wondering if you still belong.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for church, 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 seeing a church in the distance, denotes disappointment in pleasures long anticipated.
To enter one wrapt in gloom, you will participate in a funeral. Dull prospects of better times are portended.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream one is at church, and praying there, signifies joy and comfort. To dream of singing in church, is a dream of bad consequence.
Anonymous, 1894
Church.—To dream of a church is portentous of evil. If you are in a church during divine service, you will be engaged in a lawsuit or some quarrel that will very near ruin you; if you are in love, your sweetheart is unfaithful, and prefers another.