Famine
Famine in dreams often surfaces when you feel depleted—emotionally, creatively, or in connection—rather than materially. It can speak to scarcity you fear or scarcity you're already living through, but sometimes it asks whether the hunger itself is sharpening your attention toward what truly sustains you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for famine, 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 a famine, foretells that your business will be unremunerative and sickness will prove a scourge. This dream is generally bad.
If you see your enemies perishing by famine, you will be successful in competition. If dreams of famine should break in wild confusion over slumbers, tearing up all heads in anguish, filling every soul with care, hauling down Hope's banners, somber with omens of misfortune and despair, your waking grief more poignant still must grow ere you quench ambition and en{??}y{envy??} overthrow.
Fontaine, 1862
If a farmer dreams that his crops have failed, or of any scarcity of food, it shows that there will be a quarrel, which, though it may not be among his people, yet he will witness or hear about it, and it will worry him.