Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

by Gustavus Hindman Miller
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.

A Dictionary of Dream Symbols

by Eric Ackroyd
(see also Spiral, Wind)

A dream containing a whirlwind would normally be a nightmare. Have you been feeling some powerful prompting recendy? And are you afraid of it? Why? Perhaps it wants to lift you out of your accustomed mode of life on to a ‘higher level of existence. Determine to stay with the nightmarish image the next time it appears in a dream, to take a closer look at the psychic force it symbolizes.

The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
Depending on the meaning, the movement in a spiral that characterizes the whirlwind represents the creation or destruction of the world. When its speed overtakes you, it means that the circumstances are dominating you, and there is nothing you can do. Certain circumstances could be familial, social, or professional. The dream tasks you with reversing this force, such that it is you who has control in your life.