Coffin
A coffin often carries the weight of necessary endings—not literal death, but the closing of chapters we've outgrown or relationships that no longer serve. Sometimes the dream asks: what are you mourning, and what might be waiting on the other side of grief?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for coffin, 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 is unlucky. You will, if you are a farmer, see your crops blasted and your cattle lean and unhealthy. To business men it means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid. To the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones.
To see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic sorrow may be expected.
To dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and marriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled. Death may follow this dream, but there will also be good.
To see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed in defeat and ignominy,
To dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse, denotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely allied to you.
Quarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated. You will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of one, denotes the death of a friend, or some near relation.