What's In A Dream
An A to Z of Dream Meanings and Symbolism in Dreams
A Dream Dictionary for use in Dream Interpretation
B.
``_God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,
`Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman thou hast taken;
for she is a man's wife_.''--Gen. xx., 3rd.
_Baby_.
To dream of crying babies, is indicative of ill health and disappointments.
A bright, clean baby, denotes love requited, and many warm friends.
Walking alone, it is a sure sign of independence and a total ignoring
of smaller spirits. If a woman dream she is nursing a baby,
she will be deceived by the one she trusts most.
It is a bad sign to dream that you take your baby if sick with fever.
You will have many sorrows of mind.
_Baby Carriages_.
To dream of a baby carriage, denotes that you will have a congenial
friend who will devise many pleasurable surprises for you.
_Bachelor_.
For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him
to keep clear of women.
For a woman to dream of a bachelor, denotes love not born of purity.
Justice goes awry. Politicians lose honor.
_Back_.
To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power.
Lending advice or money is dangerous. Sickness often
attends this dream.
To see a person turn and walk away from you, you may be sure envy
and jealousy are working to your hurt.
To dream of your own back, bodes no good to the dreamer.
_Back-bite_.
Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined
with others in back-biting.
For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by
servants and children.
_Backgammon_.
To dream of playing backgammon, denotes that you will, while visiting,
meet with unfriendly hospitality, but will unconsciously win friendships
which will endure much straining.
If you are defeated in the game, you will be unfortunate in bestowing
your affections, and your affairs will remain in an unsettled condition.
_Bacon_.
To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you
and hands are clean.
Rancid bacon, is dulness of perception and unsatisfactory states
will worry you.
To dream of curing bacon is bad, if not clear of salt and smoke.
If clear, it is good.
_Badger_.
To dream of a badger, is a sign of luck after battles with hardships.
_Bag-Pipe_.
This is not a bad dream, unless the music be harsh and the player
in rags.
_Baghavad Ghitta_.
To dream of the Baghavad, foretells for you a season of seclusion;
also rest to the exhausted faculties. A pleasant journey
for your advancement will be planned by your friends.
Little financial advancement is promised in this dream.
_Bail_.
If the dreamer is seeking bail, unforeseen troubles will arise;
accidents are likely to occur; unfortunate alliances may be made.
If you go bail for another, about the same conditions,
though hardly as bad.
_Bailiff_.
Shows a striving for a higher place, and a deficiency in intellect.
If the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying
to work for your money.
_Bake-house_.
To dream of a bake-house, demands caution in making changes in one's
career.
Pitfalls may reveal themselves on every hand.
For a young woman to dream that she is in a bake house,
portends that her character wil{l} be assailed.
She should exercise great care in her social affairs.
_Baking_.
Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many
children;
meanness and poverty of supporters are indicated.
_Balcony_.
For lovers to dream of making sad adieus on a balcony, long and perhaps
final separation may follow. Balcony also denotes unpleasant news
of absent friends.
_Bald_.
To see a bald-headed man, denotes that sharpers are to make
a deal adverse to your interests, but by keeping wide awake,
you will outwit them.
For a man to dream of a bald-headed woman, insures him to have
a vixen for wife.
A bald hill, or mountain, indicates famine and suffering in various
forms.
For a young woman to dream of a bald-headed man, is a warning to
her to use
her intelligence against listening to her next marriage offer.
Bald-headed babies signify a happy home, a loving companion,
and obedient children.
_Ball_.
A very satisfactory omen, if beautiful and gaily-dressed
people are dancing to the strains of entrancing music.
If you feel gloomy and distressed at the inattention of others,
a death in the family may be expected soon.
_Ballet_.
Indicates infidelity in the marriage state; also failures in business,
and quarrels and jealousies among sweethearts.
_Balloon_.
Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream.
Business of every character will sustain an apparent falling off.
To ascend in a balloon, denotes an unfortunate journey.
_Banishment_.
Evil pursues the unfortunate dreamer. If you are banished
to foreign lands, death will be your portion at an early date.
To banish a child, means perjury of business allies.
It is a dream of fatality.
_Banjo_.
To dream of a banjo, denotes that pleasant amusements will be enjoyed.
To see a negro playing one, denotes that you will have slight worries,
but no serious vexation for a season.
For a young woman to see negroes with their banjos,
foretells that she will fail in some anticipated amusement.
She will have misunderstandings with her lover.
_Bank_.
To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses.
Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it,
great gain and prosperity.
To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune.
You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes.
_Bankrupt_.
Denotes partial collapse in business, and weakening of the brain
faculties.
A warning to leave speculations alone.
_Banana_.
To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting
and an unloved companion.
To eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business,
and self-inflicted duty.
To see them decaying, you are soon to fall into some disagreeable
enterprise.
To trade in them, non-productive interests will accumulate around
you.
_Banner_.
To see one's country's banner floating in a clear sky, denotes triumph
over foreign foes. To see it battered, is significant of wars and
loss
of military honors on land and sea.
_Banquet_.
It is good to dream of a banquet. Friends will wait to do you favors.
To dream of yourself, together with many gaily-attired guests,
eating from costly plate and drinking wine of fabulous price
and age, foretells enormous gain in enterprises of every nature,
and happiness among friends.
To see inharmonious influences, strange and grotesque faces or empty
tables,
is ominous of grave misunderstandings or disappointments.
_Bantam_.
To see bantam chickens in your dream, denotes your fortune will
be small, yet you will enjoy contentment. If they appear sickly,
or exposed to wintry storms, your interests will be impaired.
_Baptism_.
To dream of baptism, signifies that your character needs strengthening
by
the practice of temperance in advocating your opinions to the disparagement
of your friends.
To dream that you are an applicant, signifies that you will humiliate
your inward self for public favor.
To dream that you see John the Baptist baptizing Christ in the Jordan,
denotes that you will have a desperate mental struggle between yielding
yourself to labor in meagre capacity for the sustenance of others,
or follow desires which might lead you into wealth and exclusiveness.
To see the Holy Ghost descending on Christ, is significant of resignation
to duty and abnegation of self.
If you are being baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire,
means that you will be thrown into a state of terror over being
discovered in some lustful engagement.
_Bar_.
To dream of tending a bar, denotes that you will resort to some questionable
mode of advancement.
Seeing a bar, denotes activity in communities, quick uplifting of
fortunes,
and the consummation of illicit desires.
_Barber_.
To dream of a barber, denotes that success will come through struggling
and close attention to business. For a young woman to dream of a barber,
foretells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly.
_Barefoot_.
To wander in the night barefoot with torn garments, denotes that
you
will be crushed in expectation, and evil influences will surround
your every effort.
_Barley-field_.
The dreamer will obtain his highest desires, and every effort
will be crowned with success. Decay in anything denotes loss.
_Barmaid_.
For a man to dream of a barmaid, denotes that his desires run
to low pleasures, and he will scorn purity.
For a young woman to dream that she is a barmaid, foretells that
she
will be attracted to fast men, and that she will prefer irregular
pleasures to propriety.
_Barn_.
If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn,
with fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity.
If empty, the reverse may be expected.
_Barrel_.[19]
[19] See Cask.
_Barometer_.
To see a barometer in a dream, foretells a change will soon take
place in your affairs, which will prove profitable to you.
If it is broken, you will find displeasing incidents in
your business, arising unexpectedly.
_Baseball_.
To see baseball in your dream, denotes you will be easily contented,
and your cheerfulness will make you a popular companion.
For a young woman to dream that she is playing baseball,
means much pleasure for her, but no real profit or comfort.
_Basement_.[20]
To dream that you are in a basement, foretells that you
will see prosperous opportunities abating, and with them,
pleasure will dwindle into trouble and care.
[20] See Cellar.
_Basin_.
For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly
graces will win her real friendships and elevations.
_Basket_.
To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you
will meet unqualified success, if the basket is full;
but empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow.
_Baste_.
To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will
undermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness.
For a woman to baste her sewing, omens much vacation owing
to her extravagance.
_Bass Voice_.
To dream that you have a bass voice, denotes you will detect some
discrepancy
in your business, brought about by the deceit of some one in your
employ.
For the lover, this foretells estrangements and quarrels.
_Bath_.
For a young person to dream of taking a bath, means much solicitude
for one of the opposite sex, fearing to lose his good opinion through
the influence of others.
For a pregnant woman to dream this, denotes miscarriage or accident.
For a man, adultery. Dealings of all kinds should be carried on
with discretion after this dream.
To go in bathing with others, evil companions should be avoided.
Defamation of character is likely to follow. If the water
is muddy, evil, indeed death, and enemies are near you.
For a widow to dream of her bath, she has forgotten her former ties,
and is hurrying on to earthly loves. Girls should shun male companions.
Men will engage in intrigues of salacious character.
A warm bath is generally significant of evil. A cold, clear bath
is
the fore-runner of joyful tidings and a long period of excellent health.
Bathing in a clear sea, denotes expansion of business and satisfying
research after knowledge.
_Bathroom_.
To see white roses in a bathroom, and yellow ones in a box,
denote that sickness will interfere with pleasure; but more
lasting joys will result from this disappointment.
For a young woman to dream of a bathroom, foretells that her inclinations
trend too much toward light pleasures and frivolities.
_Bats_.
Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal.
Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you.
Death of parents and friends, loss of limbs or sight,
may follow after a dream of these ghoulish monsters.
A white bat is almost a sure sign of death. Often the death
of a child follows this dream.
_Battle_.
Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory
over the same.
If you are defeated in battle, it denotes that bad deals made
by others will mar your prospects for good.
_Bayonet_.
To dream of a bayonet, signifies that enemies will hold you in their
power,
unless you get possession of the bayonet.
_Bay Tree_.
A palmy leisure awaits you in which you will meet many pleasing varieties
of diversions. Much knowledge will be reaped in the rest from work.
It is generally a good dream for everybody.
_Beacon-light_.
For a sailor to see a beacon-light, portends fair seas and
a prosperous voyage.
For persons in distress, warm attachments and unbroken,
will arise among the young.
To the sick, speedy recovery and continued health.
Business will gain new impetus. To see it go out in time
of storm or distress, indicates reverses at the time when you
thought Fortune was deciding in your favor.
_Beads_.
To dream of beads, foretells attention from those in elevated position
will
be shown you. To count beads, portends immaculate joy and contentment.
To string them, you will obtain the favor of the rich.
To scatter them, signifies loss of caste among your acquaintances.
_Beans_.
This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries
and sickness among children.
Dried beans, means much disappointment in worldly affairs.
Care should be taken to prevent contagious diseases from spreading.
To dream of eating them, implies the misfortune or illness
of a well loved friend.
_Bear_.
Bear is significant of overwhelming competition in pursuits of every
kind.
To kill a bear, portends extrication from former entanglements.
A young woman who dreams of a bear will have a threatening rival
or some misfortune.
_Beard_.
To dream of seeing a beard, denotes that some uncongenial person
will oppose
his will against yours, and there will be a fierce struggle for mastery,
and you are likely to lose some money in the combat.
Gray beard, signifies hard luck and quarrels.
To see beard on women, foretells unpleasant associations
and lingering illness.
For some one to pull your beard, denotes that you will run a narrow
risk if you do not lose property.
To comb and admire it, shows that your vanity will grow with prosperity,
making you detestable in the sight of many of your former companions.
For a young woman to admire a beard, intimates her desire to leave
celibacy;
but she is threatened with an unfortunate marriage.
_Beat_.
It bodes no good to dream of being beaten by an angry person;
family jars and discord are signified.
To beat a child, ungenerous advantage is taken by you of another;
perhaps the tendency will be to cruelly treat a child.
_Beauty_.
Beauty in any form is pre-eminently good. A beautiful woman brings
pleasure and profitable business. A well formed and beautiful child,
indicates love reciprocated and a happy union.
_Beaver_.
To dream of seeing beavers, foretells that you will obtain
comfortable circumstances by patient striving. If you dream
of killing them for their skins, you will be accused of fraud
and improper conduct toward the innocent.
_Bed_.
A bed, clean and white, denotes peaceful surcease of worries.
For a woman to dream of making a bed, signifies a new lover
and pleasant occupation.
To dream of being in bed, if in a strange room, unexpected friends
will visit you. If a sick person dreams of being in bed,
new complications will arise, and, perhaps, death.
To dream that you are sleeping on a bed in the open air, foretells
that you
will have delightful experiences, and opportunity for improving your
fortune.
For you to see negroes passing by your bed, denotes exasperating circumstances
arising, which will interfere with your plans.
To see a friend looking very pale, lying in bed, signifies strange
and woeful
complications will oppress your friends, bringing discontent to yourself.
For a mother to dream that her child wets a bed,
foretells she will have unusual anxiety, and persons sick,
will not reach recovery as early as may be expected.
For persons to dream that they wet the bed, denotes sickness,
or a tragedy will interfere with their daily routine of business.
_Bedbugs_.
Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy
states.
Fatalities are intimated if you see them in profusion.
To see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by
illness.
To mash them, and water appears instead of blood, denotes alarming
but not
fatal illness or accident. To see bedbugs crawling up white walls,
and you
throw scalding water upon them, denotes grave illness will distress
you,
but there will be useless fear of fatality.
If the water fails to destroy them, some serious complication
with fatal results is not improbable.
_Bed Fellow_.
To dream that you do not like your bed fellow, foretells that
some person who has claims upon you, will censure and make
your surroundings unpleasant generally.
If you have a strange bed fellow, your discontent will worry all
who come
near you. If you think you have any kind of animal in bed with you,
there will be unbounded ill luck overhanging you.
_Bed-chamber_.
To see one newly furnished, a happy change for the dreamer.
Journeys to distant places, and pleasant companions.
_Beef_.
If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will
attack
the subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind.
To see, or eat cooked beef, anguish surpassing human aid is before
you.
Loss of life by horrible means will occur. Beef properly served under
pleasing surroundings denotes harmonious states in love and business,
if otherwise, evil is foreboded, though it may be of a trifling nature.
_Beer_.
Fateful of disappointments if drinking from a bar. To see others
drinking,
work of designing intriguers will displace your fairest hopes.
To habitue's of this beverage, harmonious prospectives are foreshadowed,
if pleasing, natural and cleanly conditions survive. The dream occurrences
frequently follow in the actual.
_Bees_.
Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements.
For an officer, it brings obedient subjects and healthful environments.
To a preacher, many new members and a praying congregation.
To business men, increase in trade. To parents, much pleasure
from dutiful children. If one stings, loss or injury will bear
upon you from a friendly source.
_Beetles_.
To dream of seeing them on your person, denotes poverty and small
ills.
To kill them is good.
_Beets_.
To see them growing abundantly, harvest and peace will obtain in
the land;
eating them with others, is full of good tidings.
If they are served in soiled or impure dishes, distressful awakenings
will disturb you.
_Beggar_.
To see an old, decrepit beggar, is a sign of bad management,
and unless you are economical, you will lose much property.
Scandalous reports will prove detrimental to your fame.
To give to a beggar, denotes dissatisfaction with present surroundings.
To dream that you refuse to give to a beggar is altogether bad.
_Beheading_.
To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure
in some undertaking will soon follow.
To see others beheaded, if accompanied by a large flow of blood,
death and exile are portended.
_Bier_.
To see one, indicates disastrous losses and the early dissolution
of a dear relative.
To see one, strewn with flowers in a church, denotes an unfortunate
marriage.
_Belladonna_.
Strategic moves will bring success in commercial circles.
Women will find rivals in society; vain and fruitless efforts
will be made for places in men's affections.
Taking it, denotes misery and failure to meet past debts.
_Bell-man_.
Fortune is hurrying after you. Questions of importance will be settled
amicably among disputants. To see him looking sad some sorrowful event
or misfortune may soon follow.
_Bellows_.
Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty
and fate by energy and perseverance.
To dream of seeing a bellows, distant friends are longing to see
you.
To hear one, occult knowledge will be obtained by the help
of powerful means. One fallen into disuse, portends you have
wasted energies under misguiding impulses.
_Bells_.
To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will
occur,
and intelligence of wrong will worry you.
Liberty bells, indicate a joyous victory over an opponent.
_Belly_.[21]
It is bad to dream of seeing a swollen mortifying belly,
it indicates desperate sickness.
To see anything moving on the belly, prognosticates humiliation
and hard labor.
To see a healthy belly, denotes insane desires.
[21] See Abdomen.
_Belt_.
To dream that you have a new style belt, denotes you are soon to
meet and
make engagements with a stranger, which will demoralize your prosperity.
If it is out of date, you will be meritedly censured for rudeness.
_Bench_.
Distrust debtors and confidants if you dream of sitting on one.
If you see others doing so, happy reunions between friends who have
been
separated through misunderstandings are suggested.
_Bequest_.
After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of
duties
well performed, and the health of the young is assured.
_Bereavement_.
To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans
will meet
with quick frustration, and where you expect success there will be
failure.
Bereavement of relatives, or friends, denotes disappointment
in well matured plans and a poor outlook for the future.
_Bet_.
Betting on races, beware of engaging in new undertakings.
Enemies are trying to divert your attention from legitimate business.
Betting at gaming tables, denotes that immoral devices will be used
to wring money from you.
_Bible_.
To dream of the Bible, foretells that innocent and disillusioned
enjoyment will be proffered for your acceptance.
To dream that you villify{sic} the teachings of the Bible,
forewarns you that you are about to succumb to resisted temptations
through the seductive persuasiveness of a friend.
_Bigamy_.
For a man to commit bigamy, denotes loss of manhood and failing mentality.
To a woman, it predicts that she will suffer dishonor unless very
discreet.
_Bicycle_.
To dream of riding a bicycle up hill, signifies bright prospects.
Riding it down hill, if the rider be a woman, calls for care regarding
her good name and health; misfortune hovers near.
_Billiards_.
Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer.
Law suits and contentions over property. Slander will get
in her work to your detriment. If you see table and balls idle,
deceitful comrades are undermining you{.}
_Birds_.
It is a favorable dream to see birds of beautiful plumage.
A wealthy and happy partner is near if a woman has dreams
of this nature.
Moulting and songless birds, denotes merciless and inhuman treatment
of the outcast and fallen by people of wealth.
To see a wounded bird, is fateful of deep sorrow caused by erring
offspring.
To see flying birds, is a sign of prosperity to the dreamer.
All disagreeable environments will vanish before the wave
of prospective good.
To catch birds, is not at all bad. To hear them speak, is owning
one's
inability to perform tasks that demand great clearness of perception.
To kill than with a gun, is disaster from dearth of harvest.
_Bird's Nest_.
To see an empty bird's nest, denotes gloom and a dull outlook for
business.
With eggs in the nest, good results will follow all engagements.
If young ones are in the nest, it denotes successful journeys and
satisfactory dealings. If they are lonely and deserted, sorrow, and
folly
of yours will cause you anxiety.
_Birth_.
For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child,
great joy and a handsome legacy is foretold.
For a single woman, loss of virtue and abandonment by her lover.
_Birthday_.
To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the
young,
to the old, long trouble and desolation.
_Birthday Presents_.
Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments.
Working people will advance in their trades.
Giving birthday presents, denotes small deferences, if given
at a fe^te or reception.
_Biscuits_.
Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured
over silly disputes.
_Bishop_.
To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental
worries,
caused from delving into intricate subjects.
To the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur
loss
of good money.
For one to see a bishop in his dreams, hard work will
be his patrimony, with chills and ague as attendant.
If you meet the approval of a much admired bishop, you will be
successful in your undertakings in love or business.
_Bite_.
This dream omens ill.
It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing.
You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy.
_Blackberries_.
To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky.
Eating them denotes losses.
_Blackboard_.
To see in your dreams writing in white chalk on a blackboard, denotes
ill
tidings of some person prostrated with some severe malady, or your
financial
security will be swayed by the panicky condition of commerce.
_Blacksmith_.
To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will
soon work
to your advantage.
_Bladder_.
To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in
your business
if you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies.
To see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations
will fail to give you much comfort.
_Blanket_.
Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled. If new and white,
success where failure is feared, and a fatal sickness will be avoided
through unseen agencies.
_Blasphemy_.[22]
Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed
friendship will do you great harm.
To dream you are cursing yourself, means evil fortune.
To dream you are cursed by others, signifies relief through
affection and prosperity.
The interpretation of this dream here given is not satisfactory.
[22] See Profanity.
_Bleating_.
To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you
will have
new duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones.
_Bleeding_.
To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious
reports about you. Fortune will turn against you.
_Blind_.
To dream of being blind, denotes a sudden change from affluence
to almost abject poverty.
To see others blind, denotes that some worthy person will call
on you for aid.
_Blindfold_.
For a woman to dream that she is blindfolded, means that disturbing
elements are rising around to distress and trouble her.
Disappointment will be felt by others through her.
_Blind Man's Buff_.
To dream that you are playing at blind man's buff, denotes that you
are
about to engage in some weak enterprise which will likely humiliate
you,
besides losing money for you.
_Blood_.
Blood-stained garments, indicate enemies who seek to tear down a
successful
career that is opening up before you.
The dreamer should beware of strange friendships.
To see blood flowing from a wound, physical ailments and worry.
Bad business caused from disastrous dealings with foreign combines.
To see blood on your hands, immediate bad luck, if not careful
of your person and your own affairs.
_Blood Stone_.
To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate
in your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift,
denotes she will suffer estrangement from one friend, but will, by
this,
gain one more worthy of her.
_Blossoms_.
To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time
of pleasing prosperity is nearing you.
_Blows_.
Denotes injury to yourself. If you receive a blow, brain trouble
will threaten you.
If you defend yourself, a rise in business will follow.
_Blotting Paper_.
To dream of using blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived
into the betrayal of secrets which will seriously involve a friend.
To see worn blotting paper, denotes continued disagreements in the
home
or among friends.
_Blushing_.
For a young woman to dream of blushing, denotes she will be worried
and humiliated by false accusations. If she sees others blush,
she will be given to flippant railery which will make her unpleasing
to her friends.
_Boarding House_.
To dream of a boarding house, foretells that you will suffer
entanglement and disorder in your enterprises, and you are likely
to change your residence.
_Boa-Constrictor_.
To dream of this is just about the same as to dream of the devil;
it indicates
stormy times and much bad fortune. Disenchantment with humanity will
follow.
To kill one is good.
_Boasting_.
To hear boasting in your dreams, you will sincerely regret
an impulsive act, which will cause trouble to your friends.
To boast to a competitor, foretells that you will be unjust,
and will use dishonest means to overcome competition.
_Boat_.
Boat signals forecast bright prospects, if upon clear water.
If the water is unsettled and turbulent, cares and unhappy changes
threaten the dreamer. If with a gay party you board a boat
without an accident, many favors will be showered upon you.
Unlucky the dreamer who falls overboard while sailing
upon stormy waters.
_Bobbin_.
To dream of bobbins, denotes that important work will devolve on
you,
and your interests will be adversely affected if you are negligent
in dispatching the same work.
_Bog_.[23]
Bogs, denotes burdens under whose weight you feel that endeavors
to rise are useless. Illness and other worries may oppress you.
[23] See Swamp.
_Boiler_.
To dream of seeing a boiler out of repair, signifies you
will suffer from bad management or disappointment.
For a woman to dream that she goes into a cellar to see about
a boiler foretells that sickness and losses will surround her.
_Boils_.
To dream of a boil running pus and blood, you will have unpleasant
things
to meet in your immediate future. May be that the insincerity of friends
will cause you great inconvenience.
To dream of boils on your forehead, is significant of the sickness
of some one near you.
_Bolts_.
To dream of bolts, signifies that formidable obstacles will
oppose your progress.
If the bolts are old or broken, your expectations will be
eclipsed by failures.
_Bomb Shell_.
To dream of bomb shells, foretells anger and disputes, ending in
law suits.
Many displeasing incident{s?} follow this dream.
_Bones_.
To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery
is working to ensnare you.
To see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround
you.
_Bonnet_.
Bonnet, denotes much gossiping and slanderous insinuations,
from which a woman should carefully defend herself.
For a man to see a woman tying her bonnet, denotes unforeseen
good luck near by. His friends will be faithful and true.
A young woman is likely to engage in pleasant and harmless flirtations
if her bonnet is new and of any color except black.
Black bonnets, denote false friends of the opposite sex.
_Books_.
Pleasant pursuits, honor and riches to dream of studying them.
For an author to dream of his works going to press, is a dream of
caution;
he will have much trouble in placing them before the public.
To dream of spending great study and time in solving some
intricate subjects, and the hidden meaning of learned authors,
is significant of honors well earned.
To see children at their books, denotes harmony and good conduct
of the young.
To dream of old books, is a warning to shun evil in any form.
_Bookcase_.
To see a bookcase in your dreams, signifies that you
will associate knowledge with your work and pleasure.
Empty bookcases, imply that you will be put out because of lack
of means or facility for work.
_Book Store_.
To visit a book store in your dream, foretells you will be filled
with literary aspirations, which will interfere with your other
works and labors.
_Boots_.
To see your boots on another, your place will be usurped in the affections
of your sweetheart.
To wear new boots, you will be lucky in your dealings.
Bread winners will command higher wages.
Old and torn boots, indicate sickness and snares before you.
_Borrowing_.
Borrowing is a sign of loss and meagre support.
For a banker to dream of borrowing from another bank,
a run on his own will leave him in a state of collapse,
unless he accepts this warning. If another borrows from you,
help in time of need will be extended or offered you.
True friends will attend you.
_Bosom_.
For a young woman to dream that her bosom is wounded, foretells that
some
affliction is threatening her.
To see it soiled or shrunken, she will have a great
disappointment in love and many rivals will vex her.
If it is white and full she is soon to be possessed of fortune.
If her lover is slyly observing it through her sheer corsage,
she is about to come under the soft persuasive influence
of a too ardent wooer.
_Bottles_.
Bottles are good to dream of if well filled with transparent liquid.
You will overcome all obstacles in affairs of the heart,
prosperous engagements will ensue. If empty, coming trouble
will envelop you in meshes of sinister design, from which you
will be forced to use strategy to disengage yourself.
_Bouquet_.
To dream of a bouquet beautifully and richly colored, denotes a legacy
from some wealthy and unknown relative; also, pleasant, joyous gatherings
among young folks.
To see a withered bouquet, signifies sickness and death.
_Bow and Arrow_.
Bow and arrow in a dream, denotes great gain reaped from the inability
of others to carry out plans.
To make a bad shot means disappointed hopes in carrying forward
successfully business affairs.
_Box_.
Opening a goods box in your dream, signifies untold wealth and that
delightful journeys to distant places may be made with happy results.
If the box is empty disappointment in works of all kinds will follow.
To see full money boxes, augurs cessation from business cares
and a pleasant retirement.
_Bracelet_.
To see in your dreams a bracelet encircling your arm, the gift of
lover
or friend, is assurance of an early marriage and a happy union.
If a young woman lose her bracelet she will meet with sundry
losses and vexations.
To find one, good property will come into her possession.
_Brain_.
To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings
will irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion.
To see the brains of animals, foretells that you will
suffer mental trouble.
If you eat them, you will gain knowledge, and profit unexpectedly.
_Brambles_.
To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil.
Law suits will go against you, and malignant sickness attack you,
or some of your family.
_Brandy_.
To dream of brandy, foretells that while you may reach heights of
distinction
and wealth, you will lack that innate refinement which wins true friendship
from people whom you most wish to please.
_Branch_.
It betokens, if full of fruit and green leaves, wealth, many delightful
hours with friends. If they are dried, sorrowful news of the absent.
_Brass_.
To dream of brass, denotes that you will rise rapidly in your profession,
but while of apparently solid elevation you will secretly fear
a downfall of fortune.
_Bray_.
Hearing an ass bray, is significant of unwelcome tidings or intrusions.
_Bread_.[24]
For a woman to dream of eating bread, denotes that she will be afflicted
with children of stubborn will, for whom she will spend many days
of useless
labor and worry.
To dream of breaking bread with others, indicates an assured
competence through life.
To see a lot of impure bread, want and misery will burden the dreamer.
If the bread is good and you have access to it, it is a favorable
dream.
[24] See Baking and Crust.
_Break_.
Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs,
denotes bad management and probable failures. To break furniture,
denotes domestic quarrels and an unquiet state of the mind.
To break a window, signifies bereavement. To see a broken ring
order will be displaced by furious and dangerous uprisings,
such as jealous contentions often cause.
_Breakfast_.[25]
Is favorable to persons engaged in mental work. To see a breakfast
of fresh milk and eggs and a well filled dish of ripe fruit,
indicates hasty, but favorable changes.
If you are eating alone, it means you will fall into your enemies'
trap.
If you are eating with others it is good.
[25] See Meals.
_Breath_.
To come close to a person in your dreaming with a pure and sweet
breath,
commendable will be your conduct, and a profitable consummation of
business
deals will follow.
Breath if fetid, indicates sickness and snares.
Losing one's breath, denotes signal failure where success seemed
assured.
_Brewing_.
To dream of being in a vast brewing establishment, means unjust
persecution by public officials, but you will eventually prove
your innocence and will rise far above your persecutors.
Brewing in any way in your dreams, denotes anxiety at the outset,
but usually ends in profit and satisfaction.
_Briars_.
To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords
of
calumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great
distress,
but if you succeed in disengaging yourself from the briars, loyal
friends
will come to your assistance in every emergency.
_Brick_.
Brick in a dream, indicates unsettled business and disagreements
in love affairs. To make them you will doubtless fail in your
efforts to amass great wealth.
_Bride_.[26]
For a young woman to dream that she is a bride, foretells that
she will shortly come into an inheritance which will please
her exceedingly, if she is pleased in making her bridal toilet.
If displeasure is felt she will suffer disappointments
in her anticipations.
To dream that you kiss a bride, denotes a happy reconciliation
between friends. For a bride to kiss others, foretells for you many
friends and pleasures; to kiss you, denotes you will enjoy health
and find that your sweetheart will inherit unexpected fortune.
To kiss a bride and find that she looks careworn and ill,
denotes you will be displeased with your success and the action
of your friends.
If a bride dreams that she is indifferent to her husband, it foretells
that many unhappy circumstances will pollute her pleasures.
[26] See Wedding.
_Bridge_.
To see a long bridge dilapidated, and mysteriously winding
into darkness, profound melancholy over the loss of dearest
possessions and dismal situations will fall upon you.
To the young and those in love, disappointment in the heart's
fondest hopes, as the loved one will fall below your ideal.
To cross a bridge safely, a final surmounting of difficulties,
though the means seem hardly safe to use. Any obstacle
or delay denotes disaster.
To see a bridge give way before you, beware of treachery and false
admirers.
Affluence comes with clear waters. Sorrowful returns of best efforts
are
experienced after looking upon or coming in contact with muddy or
turbid
water in dreams.
_Bridle_.
To dream of a bridle, denotes you will engage in some enterprise
which will
afford much worry, but will eventually terminate in pleasure and gain.
If it is old or broken you will have difficulties to encounter,
and the probabilities are that you will go down before them.
A blind bridle signifies you will be deceived by some wily enemy,
or some woman will entangle you in an intrigue.
_Bridle Bits_.
To see bridle bits in your dreams, foretells you will subdue
and overcome any obstacle opposing your advancement or happiness.
If they break or are broken you will be surprised into making
concessions to enemies,
_Brimstone_.
To dream of brimstone, foretells that discreditable dealings will
lose
you many friends. if you fail to rectify the mistakes you are making.
To see fires of brimstone, denotes you will be threatened with loss
by contagion in your vicinity.
_Bronchitis_.
To dream that you are affected with bronchitis, foretells you will
be detained
from pursuing your views and plans by unfortunate complications of
sickness
in your home.
To suffer with bronchitis in a dream, denotes that discouraging prospects
of winning desired objects will soon loom up before you.
_Bronze_.
For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will
fail
in her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband.
If the statue simulates life, or moves, she will be
involved in a love affair, but no marriage will occur.
Disappointment to some person may follow the dream.
To dream of bronze serpents or insects, foretells you will be pursued
by envy and ruin. To see bronze metals, denotes your fortune will
be
uncertain and unsatisfactory.
_Brood_.
To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman,
your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be
in your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly.
Brood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.
_Broom_.
To dream of brooms, denotes thrift and rapid improvement in
your fortune, if the brooms are new. If they are seen in use,
you will lose in speculation. For a woman to lose a broom,
foretells that she will prove a disagreeable and slovenly
wife and housekeeper.
_Broth_.
Broth denotes the sincerity of friends. They will uphold you in
all instances. If you need pecuniary aid it will be forthcoming.
To lovers, it promises a strong and lasting attachment.
To make broth, you will rule your own and others' fate.
_Brothel_.
To dream of being in a brothel, denotes you will encounter disgrace
through your material indulgence.
_Brothers_.
To see your brothers, while dreaming, full of energy, you will
have cause to rejoice at your own, or their good fortune;
but if they are poor and in distress, or begging for assistance,
you will be called to a deathbed soon, or some dire loss will
overwhelm you or them.
_Brush_.
To dream of using a hair-brush, denotes you will suffer
misfortune from your mismanagement. To see old hair brushes,
denotes sickness and ill health. To see clothes brushes,
indicates a heavy task is pending over you.
If you are busy brushing your clothes, you will soon receive reimbursement
for laborious work. To see miscellaneous brushes, foretells a varied
line
of work, yet withal, rather pleasing and remunerative.
_Buckle_.
To dream of buckles, foretells that you will be beset with invitations
to
places of pleasure, and your affairs will be in danger of chaotic
confusion.
_Buffalo_.
If a woman dreams that she kills a lot of buffaloes, she will
undertake a stupendous enterprise, but by enforcing will power
and leaving off material pleasures, she will win commendation
from men, and may receive long wished for favors. Buffalo, seen in
a dream, augurs obstinate and powerful but stupid enemies.
They will boldly declare against you but by diplomacy you
will escape much misfortune.
_Bugle_.
To hear joyous blasts from a bugle, prepare for some unusual happiness,
as a harmony of good things for you is being formed by unseen powers.
Blowing a bugle, denotes fortunate dealings.
_Bugs_.
To dream of bugs denotes that some disgustingly revolting complications
will rise in your daily life. Families will suffer from the carelessness
of servants, and sickness may follow.
_Buildings_.
To see large and magnificent buildings, with green lawns stretching
out before them, is significant of a long life of plenty, and travels
and explorations into distant countries.
Small and newly built houses, denote happy homes and
profitable undertakings; but, if old and filthy buildings,
ill health and decay of love and business will follow.
_Bull_.
To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious
and jealous competitors, will harass you.
If a young woman meets a bull, she will have an offer of marriage,
but,
by declining this offer, she will better her fortune.
To see a bull goring a person, misfortune from unwisely using
another's possessions will overtake you.
To dream of a white bull, denotes that you will lift yourself
up to a higher plane of life than those who persist in making
material things their God. It usually denotes gain.
_Bulldog_.[27]
To dream of entering strange premises and have a bulldog attack you,
you will be in danger of transgressing the laws of your country by
using
perjury to obtain your desires.
If one meets you in a friendly way, you will rise in life, regardless
of
adverse criticisms and seditious interference of enemies.
[27] See Dog.
_Bullock_.[28]
Denotes that kind friends will surround you, if you are in danger
from enemies. Good health is promised you.
[28] See Bull.
_Burden_.
To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you
will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice,
caused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power.
But to struggle free from it, you will climb to the topmost
heights of success.
_Burr_.
To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from
some unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings.
_Burglars_.
To dream that they are searching your person, you will have dangerous
enemies to contend with, who will destroy you if extreme carefulness
is not practised in your dealings with strangers.
If you dream of your home, or place of business, being burglarized,
your good standing in business or society will be assailed,
but courage in meeting these difficulties will defend you.
Accidents may happen to the careless after this dream.
_Burial_.[29]
To attend the burial of a relative, if the sun is shining
on the procession, is a sign of the good health of relations,
and perhaps the happy marriage of some one of them is about to occur.
But if rain and dismal weather prevails, sickness and bad news
of the absent will soon come, and depressions in business circles
will be felt
A burial where there are sad rites performed, or sorrowing faces,
is indicative of adverse surroundings or their speedy approach.
[29] See Funeral.
_Buried Alive_.
To dream that you are buried alive. denotes that you are about to
make
a great mistake, which your opponents will quickly turn to your injury.
If you are rescued from the grave, your struggle will eventually
correct your misadventure.
_Burns_.
Burns stand for tidings of good. To burn your hand in a clear and
flowing fire, denotes purity of purpose and the approbation of friends.
To burn your feet in walking through coals, or beds of fire, denotes
your
ability to accomplish any endeavor, however impossible it may be to
others.
Your usual good health will remain with you, but, if you are overcome
in the fire, it represents that your interests will suffer through
treachery
of supposed friends.
_Butcher_.
To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long
and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat,
your character will be dissected by society to your detriment.
Beware of writing letters or documents.
_Butter_.
To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health
and plans well carried out; it will bring unto you possessions,
wealth and knowledge.
To eat rancid butter, denotes a competency acquired through struggles
of manual labor.
To sell butter, denotes small gain.
_Butterfly_.
To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses, indicates prosperity
and fair attainments.
To see them flying about, denotes news from absent friends by letter,
or from some one who has seen them. To a young woman, a happy love,
culminating in a life union.
_Buttons_.
To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens
to a young
woman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in
marriage.
To a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright
career.
Dull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses
and ill health.
The loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment,
denotes prospective losses in trade.
_Buttermilk_.
Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure,
and some imprudence will impair the general health of the dreamer.
To give it away, or feed it to pigs, is bad still.
To dream that you are drinking buttermilk made into
oyster soup, denotes that you will be called on to do some
very repulsive thing, and ill luck will confront you.
There are quarrels brewing and friendships threatened.
If you awaken while you are drinking it, by discreet maneuvering
you may effect a pleasant understanding of disagreements.
_Buzzard_.
To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old
scandal
will arise and work you injury by your connection with it.
To see one sitting on a railroad, denotes some accident or loss
is about to descend upon you. To see them fly away as you approach,
foretells that you will be able to smooth over some scandalous
disagreement among your friends, or even appertaining to yourself.
To see buzzards in a dream, portends generally salacious gossip
or that unusual scandal will disturb you.
For entertainment purposes only Written by Gustavus Hindman
Miller, Designed by Sol for Mystic Familiar
