Scaffold
A scaffold often carries the weight of exposure — being seen in a vulnerable moment, judged before the work is complete. Perhaps the dream asks whether you fear misunderstanding more than the fall itself, or whether rising means accepting that others will watch you build.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for scaffold, 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 a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment in failing to secure the object of your affection.
To ascend one, you will be misunderstood and censured by your friends for some action, which you never committed.
To decend one, you will be guilty of wrong doing, and you will suffer the penalty.
To fall from one, you will be unexpectedly surprised while engaged in deceiving and working injury to others.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of going upon a high scaffold, shows that you will rise in the world: if, in your dream, you imagine that you fall from a scaffold, or from any high place, it shadows forth a misfortune that will make you poorer: a girl who dreams of climbing upon a scaffold, will positively marry a rich man, or one of distinction, who is far above her in position.