Iron
Iron — heavy, hard, unyielding — often touches distress and material burden: perplexities pressing down, the cold harshness of force. The dream may ask where something rigid and onerous is bearing on you, whether you're being crushed by mental or material loss, and how the unbending metal mirrors a hardship that won't soften or bend.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for iron, 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 iron, is a harsh omen of distress.
To feel an iron weight bearing you down, signifies mental perplexities and material losses.
To strike with iron, denotes selfishness and cruelty to those dependent upon you.
To dream that you manufacture iron, denotes that you will use unjust means to accumulate wealth.
To sell iron, you will have doubtful success, and your friends will not be of noble character.
To see old, rusty iron, signifies poverty and disappointment.
To dream that the price of iron goes down, you will realize that fortune is a very unsafe factor in your life.
If iron advances, you will see a gleam of hope in a dark prospectus.
To see red-hot iron in your dreams, denotes failure for you by misapplied energy.