Ditch
A ditch often touches the risk of falling — degradation, loss, the low ground where suspicion can gather. The dream may ask where you fear stumbling into disgrace, whether you can clear the gap with a clean leap, and what it would take to live down a doubt cast over you rather than sinking into it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ditch, 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 falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss; but if you jump over it, you will live down any suspicion of wrong-doing.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of ditches, steep mountains, rocks, and other eminences, foretells danger and misfortune: expect thieves to rob your dwelling, or that your children will be undutiful, and bring you into trouble; if you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if you marry your present sweetheart: if you are in trade, it denotes loss of goods, and other trouble: to farmers, it foretells accidents to their live stock, loss of sheep, etc.