Disaster
Disaster — wreck, storm, calamity — often touches the fear of sudden, sweeping loss arriving from forces beyond your hand. The dream may ask what catastrophe you're bracing against, whether you or someone you love is caught in it, and whether, even if you're swept into trying straits, you sense yourself coming through unscathed.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for disaster, 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 being in any disaster from public conveyance, you are in danger of losing property or of being maimed from some malarious disease.
For a young woman to dream of a disaster in which she is a participant, foretells that she will mourn the loss of her lover by death or desertion.
To dream of a disaster at sea, denotes unhappiness to sailors and loss of their gains. To others, it signifies loss by death; but if you dream that you are rescued, you will be placed in trying situations, but will come out unscathed.
To dream of a railway wreck in which you are not a participant, you will eventually be interested in some accident because of some relative or friend being hurt, or you will have trouble of a business character.