Scalding
Being scalded — burned by something boiling over — often touches distressing incidents blotting out pleasurable anticipations. The dream may ask where something you'd looked forward to is being ruined by a sudden, painful turn, and whether a hurt arriving like a splash of boiling water is overwhelming the joy you'd let yourself expect.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for scalding, 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 being scalded, portends that distressing incidents will blot out pleasurable anticipations.