Lament
Lamenting loss often touches deep struggle and distress that, oddly, can spring into later joy and gain. The dream may ask what you're grieving — friends, property, kin — whether the sorrow is drawing you closer to your companions, and how a present mourning might quietly be clearing the ground for brighter prospects ahead.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lament, 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 that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property, signifies great struggles and much distress, from which will spring causes for joy and personal gain.
To lament the loss of relatives, denotes sickness or disappointments, which will bring you into closer harmony with companions, and will result in brighter prospects for the future.