Riot
A riot — chaotic public violence — often touches disappointing affairs, with bad luck and distress if a friend is killed in it. The dream may ask where uncontrolled, mob-like disorder is breaking out around your concerns, and whether the tumult sweeping through threatens real loss or simply unsettles plans you'd hoped would hold steady.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for riot, 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 riots, foretells disappointing affairs.
To see a friend killed in a riot, you will have bad luck in all undertakings, and the death, or some serious illness, of some person will cause you distress.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of a public tumult or riot, is a sign of scarcity and bad crops to farmers, and dull business to tradesmen and mechanics: if any friend or relative is injured in the riot, you or they will probably suffer from misfortune.