Whirlwind
A whirlwind — a violent, sweeping spiral of air — often touches confronting a change that threatens to overwhelm you with loss and calamity. The dream may ask where a sudden, chaotic force is bearing down on you, and whether you can keep your footing against the upheaval before it sweeps away what you've worked to hold.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for whirlwind, 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 that you are in the path of a whirlwind, foretells that you are confronting a change which threatens to overwhelm you with loss and calamity.
For a young woman to dream that she is caught in a whirlwind and has trouble to keep her skirts from blowing up and entangling her waist, denotes that she will carry on a secret flirtation and will be horrified to find that scandal has gotten possession of her name and she will run a close risk of disgrace and ostracism.