Desert
A desert often speaks to emotional aridity—a stretch where nourishment feels scarce and the inner landscape stripped bare. Yet solitude in such vastness can also be clarifying; sometimes what feels like abandonment is actually the space needed to hear yourself again.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for desert, 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 wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine and uprisal of races and great loss of life and property.
For a young woman to find herself alone in a desert, her health and reputation is being jeopardized by her indiscretion. She should be more cautious.