Combat
Combat often touches the inner struggle to hold firm ground — desires pulling you toward what isn't yours, and the risk to your good name in the reaching. The dream may ask what you're fighting for, whether the contest is worth your reputation, and where you're battling simply to stay standing.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for combat, 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 engaging in combat, you will find yourself seeking to ingratiate your affections into the life and love of some one whom you know to be another's, and you will run great risks of losing your good reputation in business. It denotes struggles to keep on firm ground.
For a young woman to dream of seeing combatants, signifies that she will have choice between lovers, both of whom love her and would face death for her.