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Trenches

Trenches

Trenches — dug lines of defence and concealment — often touch distant treachery and loss if you're careless with new ventures or strangers, with anxieties gathering if filled. The dream may ask where hidden hazards are cut into the ground ahead, and whether you're guarding against the treachery they signal or about to stumble into it.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for trenches, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To see trenches in dreams, warns you of distant treachery. You will sustain loss if not careful in undertaking new enterprises, or associating with strangers.

To see filled trenches, denotes many anxieties are gathering around you.

[231] See Ditch.