Ruins
Ruins foretold things broken—engagements ended, business distressed, health failing. Ancient ruins softened this into travel shadowed by a quiet sadness, a long-cherished hope realised with loss mixed in. Sometimes the dream asks what you're still walking through long after it ended, and whether you've come to mourn it or to build again.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ruins, 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 ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers, distressing conditions in business, destruction to crops, and failing health.
To dream of ancient ruins, foretells that you will travel extensively, but there will be a note of sadness mixed with the pleasure in the realization of a long-cherished hope. You will feel the absence of some friend.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream that you are looking at old ruins, or castles, or buildings, it is a sign you will travel in distant countries: to dream of the ruins of a house that has been burnt down, foretells that you will experience a loss of property: if, in your dream, you see the ruins of a house that has fallen down, it denotes the death of a friend or acquaintance.