What research shows
Appears in both nightmares and positive dreams at similar rates, which is unusual.
Nature and elements
Dreaming about fire
Destruction, purification or passion — the same element either way.
The psychological reading
A contained fire and an uncontrolled one read very differently: one is drive, the other is anger or a situation past the point of management.
What tradition claimed
A steady flame was good fortune; a spreading fire was a warning of ruin.
Included as cultural history. Traditional dream books are frequently ominous and have no predictive value.
How to record a dream, why the feeling matters more than the content, and when recurring nightmares are worth a doctor rather than a dictionary — set out once on the main page.
Before you look anything up
How the dream felt matters more than what was in it. The same image can arrive as comfort or as threat, and that difference tells you more than any entry in a dictionary — including this one.