Dreaming of Famine

famine, starvation · negative, with one exception

Famine in a dream mostly points to unprofitable business, health worries and quarrels.

What happens in the dream

  • Your enemies are dying of hunger: you will beat your competitors, the one good sign
  • A famine: business that does not pay and illness around you
  • Your crops fail or food runs short: you will witness a quarrel that worries you

How you felt

  • Anxiety: the dream may reflect a fear of not having enough
  • Emptiness: you may feel deprived of what truly sustains you

Ask yourself

  • What am I afraid of running short of right now?
  • Do my resources, material or emotional, feel sufficient?

See also Starving · Hunger · Scarcity · Poverty · Harvest

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); F. Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (1862). Also searched as: starvation.

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