Crutches
Crutches often touch dependence — leaning heavily on others for the support and advancement you can't yet manage alone. The dream may ask where you're relying on outside help to stay upright, whether that reliance is steadying you or holding you back, and what it would take to walk under your own strength again.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for crutches, 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 that you go on crutches, denotes that you will depend largely on others for your support and advancement.
To see others on crutches, denotes unsatisfactory results from labors.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream you use them, your love will forsake you; if you only see them, some infirmity will press upon you; if you break them, you will recover from sickness.