Rape
This is a heavy headword, and the dream most honestly touches a profound sense of violation — safety breached, trust broken, something that should have been inviolate wounded. The dream may ask where you feel a boundary of yours has been overrun, and whether a deep need for safety and for the restoring of trust is asking to be heard.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rape, 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 rape has been committed among your acquaintances, denotes that you will be shocked at the distress of some of your friends.
For a young woman to dream that she has been the victim of rape, foretells that she will have troubles, which will wound her pride, and her lover will be estranged.
Fontaine, 1862
If a female (married or single) dreams of an outrage on her person, (whether attempted, or successful,) it is a sign that some one of the opposite sex is in love with her: if she is married, the dream alludes to some man other than her husband. Such dreams bode no good.