A famine symbolizes a lack of Spiritual sustenance, which should give us enough energy to remain active within the physical. Famine from an emotional perspective signifies a lack of love or appreciation. In waking life those in authority may seem to withhold approval or approbation.
In the Western world famine is not so prevalent but as a dream image it may signify a concern over global matters. On a more personal note, such an image suggests that a project or task is no longer receiving the attention it deserves and, therefore, lacks nurturing.
In both men?s and women?s dreams famine suggests a lack of resources, though which particular ones will depend on everyday circumstances. You might also like to consult the entries for Eat/Eating, Fasting, Food and Nourishment.
To dream of a famine, foretells that your business will be unremunerative and sickness will prove a scourge. This dream is generally bad. If you see your enemies perishing by famine, you will be successful in competition. If dreams of famine should break in wild confusion over slumbers, tearing up all heads in anguish, filling every soul with care, hauling down Hope's banners, somber with omens of misfortune and despair, your waking grief more poignant still must grow ere you quench ambition and envy overthrow.