Dictionary Of Dreams _ 10000 Dreams Interpreted _

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Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted




BY
GUSTAVUS HINDMAN MILLER


``In a dream, in a vision of the night, when
deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon
the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and
sealeth their instruction that he may withdraw
man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.''
--Job xxxiii., 15.





PREFACE.


``Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to happen.''--BAILEY,


The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and
revealed religion, shows traces of a general and substantial
belief in dreams. Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon
assigned to certain dreams prophetic value. Joseph saw
eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself, the twelfth star.
The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat and lean cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of Herod,
and fled with the Divine Child into Egypt.
Pilate's wife, through the influence of a dream, advised her husband
to have nothing to do with the conviction of Christ. But the gross
materialism of the day laughed at dreams, as it echoed the voice and
verdict of the multitude, ``Crucify the Spirit, but let the flesh live.''










Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty.

The ultimatum of all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at the expense of the spirit.
The prophets and those who have stood nearest the fountain of universal knowledge used dreams with more frequency than any other mode of divination.
Profane, as well as sacred, history is threaded with incidents of dream prophecy. Ancient history relates that Gennadius was convinced of the immortality of his soul by conversing with an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman Senate was induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt.
The Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror break on the same night that Attila died.

Plutarch relates how Augustus, while ill, through the dream
of a friend, was persuaded to leave his tent, which a few hours
after was captured by the enemy, and the bed whereon he had lain was pierced with the enemies' swords.

If Julius Caesar had been less incredulous about dreams he would have listened to the warning which Calpurnia, his wife,
received in a dream.

Croesus saw his son killed in a dream.

Petrarch saw his beloved Laura, in a dream, on the day she died,
after which he wrote his beautiful poem, ``The Triumph of Death.''

Cicero relates the story of two traveling Arcadians who went to
different lodgings--one to an inn, and the other to a private house.
During the night the latter dreamed that his friend was begging for help.
The dreamer awoke; but, thinking the matter unworthy of notice, went to
sleep again. The second time he dreamed his friend appeared, saying it would be too late, for he had already been murdered and his body hid in a cart,
under manure. The cart was afterward sought for and the body found.
Cicero also wrote, ``If the gods love men they will certainly disclose
their purposes to them in sleep.''











Chrysippus wrote a volume on dreams as divine portent.
He refers to the skilled interpretations of dreams as a true divination; but adds that, like all other arts in which men have to proceed
on conjecture and on artificial rules, it is not infallible.

Plato concurred in the general idea prevailing in his day,
that there were divine manifestations to the soul in sleep.
Condorcet thought and wrote with greater fluency in his dreams than in waking life.

Tartini, a distinguished violinist, composed his ``Devil's Sonata''
under the inspiration of a dream. Coleridge, through dream influence, composed his ``Kubla Khan.''

The writers of Greek and Latin classics relate many instances
of dream experiences. Homer accorded to some dreams divine origin. During the third and fourth centuries, the supernatural origin
of dreams was so generally accepted that the fathers, relying upon
the classics and the Bible as authority, made this belief a doctrine
of the Christian Church.
Synesius placed dreaming above all methods of divining the future; he thought it the surest, and open to the poor and rich alike.

Aristotle wrote: ``There is a divination concerning some things
in dreams not incredible.'' Camille Flammarion, in his great book
on ``Premonitory Dreams and Divination of the Future,'' says:
``I do not hesitate to affirm at the outset that occurrence of dreams
foretelling future events with accuracy must be accepted as certain.''

Joan of Arc predicted her death.

Cazotte, the French philosopher and transcendentalist, warned Condorcet against the manner of his death.

People dream now, the same as they did in medieval and ancient times.

The following excerpt from ``The Unknown,''[1] a recent book
by Flammarion, the French astronomer, supplemented with a few of my own thoughts and collections, will answer the purposes intended for this book.










[1] ``From `The Unknown.' Published by Harper & Brothers Copyright, 1900, by Camille Flammarion.''

``We may see without eyes and hear without ears, not by unnatural excitement of our sense of vision or of hearing, for these accounts prove the contrary,
but by some interior sense, psychic and mental.
``The soul, by its interior vision, may see not only what is
passing at a great distance, but it may also know in advance
what is to happen in the future. The future exists potentially,
determined by causes which bring to pass successive events.

``POSITIVE OBSERVATION PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A PSYCHIC WORLD, as real as the world known to our physical senses.

``And now, because the soul acts at a distance by some power that belongs to it, are we authorized to conclude that it exists as something real,
and that it is not the result of functions of the brain?

``Does light really exist?
``Does heat exist?
``Does sound exist?
``No.

``They are only manifestations produced by movement.

``What we call light is a sensation produced upon our optic nerve
by the vibrations of ether, comprising between 400 and 756 trillions per second, undulations that are themselves very obscure.
``What we call heat is a sensation produced by vibrations between 350 and and{sic} 600 trillions.

``The sun lights up space, as much at midnight as at midday. Its temperature is nearly 270 degrees below zero.








``What we call sound is a sensation produced upon our auditory nerve by silent vibrations of the air, themselves comprising between 32,000 and 36,000 a second.



``Very many scientific terms represent only results, not causes. ``The soul may be in the same case.
``The observations given in this work, the sensations, the impressions, the visions, things heard, etc., may indicate physical effects produced without the brain.
``Yes, no doubt, but it does not seem so.
``Let us examine one instance.
``Turn back to page 156.@@@
``A young woman, adored by her husband, dies at Moscow. Her father-in-law,
at Pulkowo, near St. Petersburg, saw her that same hour by his side.
She walked with him along the street; then she disappeared.
Surprised, startled, and terrified, he telegraphed to his son,
and learned both the sickness and the death of his daughter-in-law.
``We are absolutely obliged to admit that SOMETHING emanated
from the dying woman and touched her father-in-law. This
_thing unknown_ may have been an ethereal movement,
as in the case of light, and may have been only an effect,
a product, a result; but this effect must have had a cause,
and this cause evidently proceeded from the woman who was dying.
Can the constitution of the brain explain this projection?
I do not think that any anatomist or physiologist will give
this question an affirmative answer. One feels that there is
a force unknown, proceeding, not from our physical organization,
but from that in us which can think.

``Take another example (see page 57).@@@

``A lady in her own house hears a voice singing.
It is the voice of a friend now in a convent, and she faints,










because she is sure it is the voice of the dead.
At the same moment that friend does really die, twenty miles away from her.
``Does not this give us the impression that one soul holds communication with another?

``Here is another example (page 163):@@@

``The wife of a captain who has gone out to the Indian mutiny sees one night her husband standing before her with his hands pressed to his breast,
and a look of suffering on his face. The agitation that she feels convinces her that he is either killed or badly wounded. It was November 14th.
The War Office subsequently publishes his death as having taken place
on November 15th. She endeavors to have the true date ascertained.
The War Office was wrong. He died on the 14th.

``A child six years old stops in the middle of his play and
cries out, frightened: ``Mamma, I have seen Mamma.'' At that
moment his mother was dying far away from him (page 124).@@@

``A young girl at a ball stops short in the middle of a dance and cries, bursting into tears. `My father is dead; I have just seen him.'
At that moment her father died. She did not even know he was ill.

``All these things present themselves to us as indicating
not physiological operations of one brain acting on another, but psychic actions of spirit upon spirit. We feel that they indicate to us some power unknown.
``No doubt it is difficult to apportion what belongs to the spirit,
the soul, and what belongs to the brain. We can only let ourselves
be guided in our judgment and our appreciations by the same
feeling that is created in us by the discussion of phenomena.
This is how all science has been started. Well, and does not every
one feel that we have here to do with manifestations from beings
capable of thought, and not with material physiological facts only?
``This impression is superabundantly confirmed by investigation concerning
the unknown faculties of the soul, when active in dreams and somnambulism.

``A brother learns the death of his young sister by a terrible nightmare.





``A young girl sees beforehand, in a dream, the man whom she will marry. ``A mother sees her child lying in a road, covered with blood.

``A lady goes, in a dream, to visit her husband on a distant steamer,
and her husband really receives this visit, which is seen by a third person.

``A magnetized lady sees and describes the interior of the body
of her dying mother; what she said is confirmed by the autopsy.
``A gentleman sees, in a dream, a lady whom he knows arriving at night in a railroad station, her journey having been undertaken suddenly.
``A magistrate sees three years in advance the commission of a crime, down to its smallest details.

``Several persons report that they have seen towns and landscapes before they ever visited them, and have seen themselves in situations in which they found themselves long after.

``A mother hears her daughter announce her intended marriage six months before it has been thought of.

``Frequent cases of death are foretold with precision.

``A theft is seen by a somnambulist, and the execution of the criminal is foretold.
``A young girl sees her fiance', or an intimate friend dying (these are frequent cases), etc.

``All these show unknown faculties in the soul. Such at least
is my own impression. It seems to me that we cannot reasonably attribute the prevision of the future and mental sight to a nervous action of the brain.

``I think we must either deny these facts or admit that they must
have had an intellectual and spiritual cause of the psychic order,
and I recommend sceptics who do not desire to be convinced, to deny them outright; to treat them as illusions and cases of a fortuitous
coincidence of circumstances. They will find this easier.










Uncompromising deniers of facts, rebels against evidence,
may be all the more positive, and may declare that the writers
of these extraordinary narratives are persons fond of a joke,
who have written them to hoax me, and that there have been persons in all ages who have done the same thing to mystify thinkers
who have taken up such questions.

``These phenomena prove, I think, that the soul exists,
and that it is endowed with faculties at present unknown.
That is the logical way of commencing our study, which in the end
may lead us to the problem of the after-life and immortality.
A thought can be transmitted to the mind of another.
There are mental transmissions, communications of thoughts,
and psychic currents between human souls. Space appears
to be no obstacle in these cases, and time sometimes seems
to be annihilated.''

A few years ago a person whom I will designate as ``A'' related a dream
to me as follows: ``I take no interest in pugilism or pugilists,
but I saw, in a dream, every detail of the Corbett and Fitzsimmons mill,
four days before it took place out West. Two nights before the fight I
had a second dream in which a favorite horse was running, but suddenly,
just before the judge's stand was passed, a hitherto unobserved little black
horse ran ahead and the crowd shouted in my ears, `Fitzsimmons wins!' ''

``B'' relates the following as a dream: ``I saw the American soldiers,
in clay-colored uniform, bearing the flag of victory two weeks
before the Spanish-American war was declared, and of course before
any living being could have known the uniform to be adopted.
Later I saw, several days before the actual occurrence happened,
the destruction of Cervera's fleet by the American navy.''
Signed ``B.''

``Just after the South African hostilities began, I saw in a dream
a fierce struggle between the British and Boers, in which the former
suffered severe losses. A few nights after I had a second dream
in which I saw the contending forces in a long-drawn contest,
very disastrous to both, and in which neither could claim a victory.
They seemed to be fighting to a frazzle.'' Signed ``C.''
``D'' related to me at the time of the occurrence of the dream the following:
``It had been suggested to me that the two cereals, corn and wheat, were too








far apart, and that I ought to buy corn. At noon I lay down on a lounge
to await luncheon; I had barely closed my eyes before a voice whispered:
`Don't buy, but sell that corn.' `What do you mean?' I asked.
`Sell at the present price, and buy at 23 7/8.' '' The foregoing dream was
related to me by a practical, successful business man who never speculates.
I watched the corn market and know it took the turns indicated in the dream.

In this dream we find the dreamer conversing with some strange
intelligence possessed of knowledge unknown to objective reason. It could not, therefore, have been the waking thoughts
of the dreamer, for he possessed no such information.
Was the message superinduced through the energies and
activities of the waking mind on the subjective mind?
This could not have been, because he had no such thoughts;
besides, the intelligence given was free from the errors
of the calculating and anxious waking mind.

We must therefore look to other sources for an explanation. Was it
the higher self that manifested to Abraham in the dim ages of the world?
Was it the Divine Voice that gave solace to Krishna in his abstraction?
Was it the unerring light that preceded Gautama into the strange solitudes
of Asia? Was it the small voice that Elijah heard in the desert
of Shurr? Was it the Comforter of Jesus in the wilderness and the garden
of distress? Or, was it Paul's indwelling spirit of this earthly tabernacle?
One thing we may truthfully affirm--that it did not proceed from the rational,
objective mind of the rank materialist, who would close all doors to that
inner life and consciousness where all true religion finds its birthmark,
its hope, its promises and its faith; which, rightly understood,
will leave to the horrors of the Roman crucifixion the twin thieves,
superstition and scepticism, while the angel of ``Goodwill'' will go
free to solace the world with the fruit and fragrance of enduring power
and promise{.} The steel chains that fasten these hydra-headed crocodiles
of sensuous poison around love and destiny can only be severed by the diamond
of wisdom and knowledge.

A citizen worthy of confidence relates the following dream:
``In December, 1878, I saw in a dream my brother-in-law, Henry Yarnell,
suffering from a bloody knife wound; after this I awoke, but soon
fell asleep again. The second time I dreamed of a similar scene,
except that the wound was the result of a shotgun. After this I
did not go to sleep again. I was much troubled about my dream,
and soon started in the direction of my brother-in-law's house.








I had not gone far, when I met an acquaintance who promptly informed me that my brother-in-law had been shot.'' Signed ``E.''
A well-known resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., formerly of New York City, will vouch for the accuracy of the following incident in his life:
``On February 19, 1878, I was boarding with a family on Christopher street, New York, while my wife and baby were visiting my parents in the country, a short distance from the city. Our baby was taken sick.
The malady developed into brain fever, followed by water on the brain,
causing the little one's death.

``At our boarding-place there was at the time a quartette of us
grass widowers, as we called ourselves, and in order to pass away
the time pleasantly we had organized a `grass widowers' euchre club.'
We used to meet almost every evening after dinner in the dining-room,
and play until about eleven o'clock, when we would retire.
On the above date I dreamed that after playing our usual evening
games we took our departure for our rooms, and on the way up
the second flight of stairs I heard a slight movement behind me;
on looking around I found I was being followed by a tall figure
robed in a long, loose white gown, which came down to the floor.
The figure seemed to be that of a man--I would say, about seven
feet tall--who followed me up the second flight and along
the hallway, entering my room. After coming in the door he made
a circle of the room and seemed to be looking for something,
and when he approached the door to make his exit he stopped still,
and with a gesture of his hand remarked, `I have taken all you have.'
On the following morning, about 9:30 o'clock, I received a telegram
from my wife announcing the death of our only baby.'' Signed ``F.''

A well-known citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn., relates and vouches for the truth of the following occurrence:

``Several years ago, when a boy, I had a schoolmate and friend, Willie T.,
between whom and myself there sprung up a mutual feeling of high regard.
We were chums in the sense that we were almost constantly together, both at
school and at home, and among the partnerships we formed was one of having
amateur shadowgraph and panoramic shows in the basement of Willie's home.
This much to show the mental and social relationship that existed between us.
Some time during this association (I cannot recall the exact night now)
I had a strange dream, in which my chum appeared to me with outstretched hand,










asking me to shake, saying, `I shall not see you any more.' With that,
the dream lapsed and was over. I thought nothing of the occurrence, and had
almost forgotten it, when one day, about a week later, during which time I had
not had a glimpse of my chum, while he was out hunting with another friend,
W. McC., in following him over a rail fence, the latter's gun was accidentally
discharged in Willie's face and neck, resulting in instant death.
With this shocking news the memory of the dream I had had came back to me
vividly and puzzled me very greatly, and indeed has puzzled me to this day.''
Signed ``G.''
The recipients of the above dreams are living to-day and their names and address may be obtained, none of them are credulous fanatics or predisposed to a belief in psychic or spirit phenomena.

The above dreams, except two, cannot be explained by telepathy,
because the mental picture cast on the dream mind had not in either instance taken place in waking life. This would account for
the dream perception of ``D,'' which did not, in all probability,
take place until after the murder had been committed.

The vision of ``F'' might be disposed of in the same way.
In this instance ``F'' saw the white-robed specter open the door,
walk around the room and finally, taking his position as if
to depart, say: ``I have taken all you have.'' No doubt this
vision took place at the exact moment of the child's death.

There are thousands of similar experiences occurring daily in the lives of honest, healthy and sane human beings, that rival the psychic
manifestations of Indian Yogism or Hebrew records.
Still men go on doubting this true and loving subjective intelligence
that is constantly wooing for entrance into the soul and is ever
vigilant in warning the material life of approaching evils.
They prefer the Witch of Endor, and the Black Magicians of ancient
Egypt to the higher, or Christ self, that has been seen and heard
by the sages and saints of all ages, assuming appropriate symbols,
as in the case of the vision of ``F,'' where the angel of
death was assumed.

To Paul it appeared as a great personal truth whom he was
relentlessly persecuting. To many a wayward son or daughter
of the present time, it appears as a dead relative or friend,








in order to approach the material mind and make its warning more effective.
To those who were interested in the teachings of Christ, but who after
his death were inclined to doubt him, this higher self materialized
in the form of the Great Master in order to impress on their material
minds the spiritual import of his teachings. So, to this day, when doubt
and temptation mar the moral instinct, God, through the spiritual self,
as Job says, approaches man while in deep sleep upon the bed to impress
his instructions that he may change man from his purpose.

The spiritual world always fixes its orbit upon a
straight line, while the material world is fonder of curves.
We find man struggling through dreadful marshes and deserts
of charlatanism in order to get a glimpse into his future,
instead of solicitously following the straight line of inner
consciousness that connects with the infinite mind, from which,
aided by his Church and the healthy action of his own judgment,
he may receive those helpful spiritual impressions and messages
necessary to solace the longings of the searching soul.

The philosophy of the True Master is the straight line.
Pythagoras, Plato and Christ created angles by running vertical lines
through the ecclesiastical and hypocritical conventionalities of their day. The new angles and curves thus produced by the bold philosophy
of the humble Nazarene have confronted with impregnable firmness during the intervening ages the sophistry of the Pharisees.
``In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction. That he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man.''--JOB 33:15.
``Man cannot contradict the laws of Nature. But, are all the laws of Nature yet understood?''

``Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.''--LYTTON.

Those who live active lives exclude spiritual thought and
fill their minds with the fascinations of worldly affairs,
pleasure and business, dream with less frequency than
those who regard objective matters with lighter concern.










The former depend alone upon the voluptuous warmth of the world
for *******ment; they look to money, the presence of some one,
or to other external sources for happiness, and are often disappointed; while the latter, with a just appreciation of temporal wants,
depend alone upon the inner consciousness for that peace
which passeth all carnal understanding.
They are strengthened, as were Buddha and Christ, by suppressing the sensual fires for forty days and nights in the wilderness of trial and temptation. They number a few, and are never disappointed, while the former number millions.
Nature is three-fold, so is man; male and female, son or soul. The union of one and two produce the triad or the trinity
which underlies the philosophy of the ancients.
Man has a physical or visible body, an atom of the physical or visible earth. He has a soul the exact counterpart of his body, but invisible and subjective; incomplete and imperfect as the external man, or _vice versa_.

The soul is not only the son or creation of man, but it is the real man.
It is the inner imperishable double or imprint of what has outwardly
and inwardly transpired. All thoughts, desires and actions enter the soul through the objective mind.

The automaton of the body responds as quickly to the bat
of the eye as it does to the movement of the whole body.
By it the foot-steps of man and the very hairs of his head are numbered.
Thus it becomes his invisible counterpart. It is therefore the book
of life or death, and by it he judges himself or is already judged.
When it is complete nothing can be added or taken from its personnel.
It is sometimes partly opened to him in his dreams, but in death
is clearly revealed.
Man has also a spiritual body, subjective to, and more ethereal
than the soul. It is an infinitesimal atom, and is related
in substance to the spiritual or infinite mind of the universe.
Just as the great physical sun, the center of visible light,
life and heat, is striving to purify the foul miasma of the marsh
and send its luminous messages of love into the dark crevices
of the earth, so the Great Spiritual Sun, of which the former
is a visible prototype or reflection, is striving to illuminate








with Divine Wisdom the personal soul and mind of man, thus enabling
him to become cognizant of the spiritual or Christ presence within.

The heresy and Herod of wanton flesh, degenerate victim of
the sensuous filth and fermentation of self-indulgence, is ever
striving to exile and suppress, from the wilderness of sin,
the warning cry of the Nazarite voice by intriguing with the cunning, incestuous daughters of unholy thoughts and desires.

The objective mind is most active when the body is awake.
The subjective influences are most active, and often fill
the mind with impressions, while the physical body is asleep.
The spiritual intelligence can only intrude itself when
the human will is suspended, or passive to external states.
A man who lives only on the sensual plane will receive his
knowledge through the senses, and will not, while in that state,
receive spiritual impressions or warning dreams.

Men and women rarely ever degrade themselves so low that
the small voice of the desert does not bring them a message.
Sodom and Gomorrah, vile with the debauchery of a nameless crime, were not deserted by the angel of love until the fire
which they had lighted in their souls had consumed them.
The walls of Jericho did not fall until Rahab, the harlot,
had been saved and the inmates had heard for several days
the ram's-horn and the tramp of Joshua's infantry.

The evangelist Jonah, the Sam Jones of Hebrew theology,
exhorted the adulterous Nineveh many times to repentance before it fell.

David, while intoxicated with the wine of love, from languishing
in the seductive embrace of the beautiful bathing nymph, Bathsheba, heard the voice of Nathan. Surely God is no respecter of persons, and will speak to all classes if the people will not stiffen their
necks or harden their hearts.
Women dream more often and more vividly than men, because their dream composition is less influenced and allied to external environments.

All dreams possess an element of warning or prescience;
some more than others. This is unknown to the many, but is known








to the observing few. There are many people who have no natural taste for music, and who do not know one note from another.
There are also those who cannot distinguish one color from another. To the former there is no harmony of sound, and to the latter
there is no blending of colors.
They are heard and seen, but there is no artistic recognition of the same. Still it would be absurd to say to either the musician or the artist:
your art is false and is only an illusion of the senses.

One man apparently never dreams; another dreams occasionally,
and still another more frequently; none atttempt{sic} to interpret
their dream, or to observe what follows; therefore, the verdict is,
``There is nothing in dreams.'' (Schopenhauer aptly says:
``No man can see over his own height.... Intellect is invisible
to the man who has none.'') The first is like the blind man who
denies the existence of light, because he does not perceive it.
The second and third resemble the color-blind man, who sees
but who persists in calling green blue, and _vice versa_.

A fourth man sees in a dream a friend walking in his room;
the vision is so vivid he instantly gets up and strikes a match.
After making sure there is no intruder about the room he looks
at his watch and goes back to bed. The next day he receives
the unwelcome tidings that his friend died at the exact moment
of the vision.

At another time he hears in his dream a familiar voice cry out in agony. Soon he hears of a shocking accident or distressing illness befalling the one whose voice he recognized in the dream.[2]


[2] For authentic records, see Flammarion's ``Unknown.''


The third man, already referred to, has about the same dream experiences, but calls them strange coincidences or unconscious cerebration, etc.

Again, the fourth man dreams of walking through green fields
of corn, grass or wheat. He notes after such dreams prosperous
conditions follow for at least a few days. He also notes,
if the area over which he passes is interspersed with rocks or other










adverse signs, good and bad follow in the wake of the dream.
If he succeeds in climbing a mountain and finds the top barren
he will accomplish his object, but the deal will prove unprofitable.
If it is green and spring-like in appearance, it will yield good results. If he sees muddy water, sickness, business depression or causes for jealousy may develop.
A nightmare suggests to the dreamer to be careful of health and diet, to relax his whole body, to sleep with his arms down and keep plenty of fresh air in the room.
He sums up the foregoing with a thousand similar dream incidents,
and is led to believe certain dreams possess an element of warning.

There are three pure types of dreams, namely, _subjective_,
_physical_ and _spiritual_. They relate to the past,
present and future, and are influenced by past or subjective,
physical and spiritual causes. The latter is always deeply prophetic, especially when it leaves a vivid impression on the conscious mind. The former, too, possesses an element of warning and prophecy, though the true meaning is hidden in symbols or allegory.
They are due to contingent mental pictures of the past
falling upon the conscious mind of the dreamer.
Thus he is back at the old home, and finds mother pale and aged, or ruddy and healthy, and the lawn withered or green.
It all augurs, according to the aspect the picture assumes,
ill or good fortune.

Physical dreams are more or less unimportant. They are usually
superinduced by the anxious waking mind, and when this is so they possess no prophetic significance.
Dreams induced by opiates, fevers, mesmerism and ill health come under
this class. A man who gambles is liable to dream of cards; if he dreams
of them in deep sleep the warning is to be heeded; but if it comes
as a reverie while he sleeps lightly he should regard it as worthless.
Such dreams reflect only the present condition of the body and mind
of the dreamer; but as the past and present enter into shaping the future,
the reflections thus left on the waking mind should not go by unheeded.
We often observe matters of dress and exterior appearance through mirrors,
and we soon make the necessary alterations to put our bodies in harmony










with existing formalities. Then, why not study more seriously the mental
images reflected from the mirror of the soul upon our minds through the occult processes within us?
Thirdly, the spiritual dreams are brought about by the higher self penetrating
the soul realm, and reflecting upon the waking mind approaching events.
When we put our animal mind and soul in harmony with our higher self we
become one with it, and, therefore, one with the universal mind or will by
becoming a part of it. It is through the higher self we reach the infinite.
It is through the lower self we fall into the whirlpool of matter.

These dreams are a part of the universal mind until they
transpire in the life of man. After this they go to make a part
of the personal soul. Whatever has not taken place in the mind,
or life of man, belongs exclusively to the impersonal mind.
But as soon as a man lives or sees a thing, that thing
instantly becomes a part of his soul; hence, the clairvoyant,
or mind reader, never perceives beyond the personal ego,
as the future belongs exclusively to God or the universal mind,
and has no material, subjective existence; therefore, it cannot
be known except through the channels of the higher self,
which is the Truth or the Word that is constantly striving
to manifest itself through the flesh.

Our psychical research people give us conclusive proof of mental
telepathy or telegraphy between finite minds. Thus communications or impressions are conveyed many miles from one mind to another. This phenomenon is easier when one or both of the subjects are
in a state of somnambulence or asleep.

In thought transference or mind reading it is absolutely
necessary to have a positive and a negative subject.
Through the same law that mental impressions are telegraphed
from one finite mind to another a man may place himself in harmony
with the infinite mind and thus receive true and healthful
warnings of coming evil or good. Homer, Aristotle and other
writers of the ancient classics thought this not improbable.

The statesman, the poet, the philosopher of the Bible were
unanimous in attaching prophetic significance to dreams.
Has the law of ethereal vibrations undergone any recent
changes to debar or molest the communion of the soul with its








spiritual father, any more than it has debarred contact with its material mother or environments?

We only understand the great laws of nature by effects.
We know that vegetation planted in native soil and properly attended with light, heat and moisture, will grow and yield a certain
species of fruit. We may infer how it does this, but we cannot
explain the process of transformation any more than we can explain why certain tropical birds are burnished with glowing colors,
and that other birds under the murky skies are gray and brown,
while in the Arctic regions they bleach.

In sleep we see, without being awakened, the angry lightning rend
the midnight clouds, and hear the explosive thunder hurl its fury at us;
but can we explain it any more than our scientist can explain the natural
forces of thought, of love and hate, or the subtle intuition of woman?

What of the silhouette or the anthelion of the Scandinavian Alps,
and the aerial cities so often seen by explorers and travelers?
Do not they defy the law of optics? Must we understand the intricacies
of articulation and the forces back of it before we can appropriate speech? Must we discard all belief in an infinite mind because we cannot
understand it, and therefore say we are not a part of it because there
is no Infinite? Should we discard the belief in the infinitude of number,
because we cannot understand it, and therefore say that finite number
is not a part of the infinite?

No scientist or naturalist is so grossly stupid as to deny
the infinite expansion of numbers? If this be so, it establishes
the infinite of number, of which every finite number is a part,
and thus we have a parallel in mathematics, the very cornerstone
of the exact sciences, for a finite and an infinite mind.
It is from the prototype of this infinite of number, namely,
the infinite of intelligence, that spiritual dreams proceed.
They are, therefore, the reflection of truth upon the dream mind
and occur with less frequency than do dreams of the other two classes.

There are also mixed dreams, due to a multitude of incidents
arising from one or more sources, which being reflected upon
the mind at the same instant, produce an incoherent effect similar to that which might be produced by running the same newspaper through two or more presses all of different size type.











Again, if you sit before a mirror where flashlights of faces and
other things are reflected simultaneously and instantly removed, you will fail to obtain a well-defined impression of what passed before your mind.
If you should pass on a train, at the speed of two miles a minute, through a forest of flowers and trees, your mind would be unable to distinguish one flower or tree from another.

It is in a similar way dream life and incidents may fall upon the mind.

A woman may dream of receiving a letter, and in the same connection see muddy water, or an arid landscape. Closely following, in waking life,
she is astonished to receive a letter in about the same manner of her dream, but the muddy water and the arid landscape are missing.
This is a mixed dream and is due to more than one cause.
The first part is literal in its fulfilment, and belongs to
the spiritual class; the other part of the dream is subjective, and therefore allegorical in meaning. Together with the letter, it was a forewarning of misfortune.

These dreams are more difficult of interpretation than those
belonging to the spiritual type. In such dreams you may see water,
letters, houses, money, people, and countless other things.
The next day you may cross water or receive a letter; the other
things you may not see, but annoyance or pleasure will follow.
Again, you may have a similar dream and not receive a letter or cross water,
but the waking life will be filled with the other dream pictures and you will
experience disappointing or pleasant surprises as are indicated by the letter
or water sign.
I have selected the allegorical type of dreams for the subject of this work. Dreams that are common occurrences and are thought by the world
to be meaningless.
I have endeavored, through the occult forces in and about me to find their esoteric or hidden import.

_Dreams transpire on the subjective plane. They should therefore








be interpreted by subjective intelligence_. This, though burdened
with many business cares, I have honestly endeavored to do.
Through the long hours of many nights I have waited patiently
and passively the automatic movement of my hand to write
the subjective definitions without receiving a word or a single
manifestation of intelligence, and again the mysterious forces
would write as fast as my hand could move over the paper.

I will leave it for my readers to draw their own conclusions
as to whether automatic writing is the work of extraneous spirits,
through the brain and intelligence of the medium, or the result
of auto-suggestive influence upon the subjective personality.

It is argued by the Materialist, with some degree of strength,
that the healthy man does not dream, This is, perhaps, true, in a way,
but the whole man comprises the past, present, and future. The past
and future always embrace more of the conditions that surround him than
the present. The present is only the acute stage, while the chronic stage,
considered from a personal view, is the past and future combined.
Man cannot eliminate entirely these states from himself, for, while they
are past and future to the personal mind, they are ever present
to the higher subjective senses; he is, therefore, never in perfect
health unless these states are in harmony with the present.
The personal self, in a normal state, cannot free itself from the past
or from the anxieties of the future.

The reader should ever keep before his mind the fact that no man
ever had the same dream twice. He may have had very similar dreams,
but some detail will be missing. Nature seems to abhor duplicates.
You could no more find two dreams alike than you could find facsimiles
in two blades of grass. A man cannot live two days exactly alike.
Different influences and passions will possess him. Consequently, no two
dreams can be had under exactly the same influences. Stereotypes are
peculiarly the invention of man and not of God or nature.

Since it is impossible to find a man twice in exactly the same
mental state, it is equally impossible for him to dream the same dream twice; therefore, it is only possible to approximate
dream interpretation by classing them into families.
This I have attempted to do in a more comprehensive way than other writers who have preceded me.










All men are acquainted with health and sickness, love and hate,
success and failure. Sickness, hate and failure belong to kindred families,
and often ally their forces in such a way that it is hard to say whether
the dreamer will fail in love, health or some business undertaking.
But at all times a bad symbol is a warning of evil, though that evil may
be minimized or exaggerated, or _vice versa_, according as signs are good.

Thus, if the dream symbol indicates wealth or fortune to the peasant,
his waking life may be gladdened by receiving or seeing a fifty-cent piece, or finding assuring work, while the same symbol to a wealthy man would mean many dollars, or a favorable turn in affairs.

It is the same in physical life. A man may hear the sound of a wagon.
He cannot determine by the rattle of the wheels whether it is laden
with laundry, groceries or dry goods. He may judge as to its size
and whether it is bearing a heavy or a light burden. When it
objectifies he will be able to know its full import and not before.
So with dream symbols. We may know they are fraught with evil or good, as in the case of Pilate's wife, but we cannot tell their full meaning
until their reflections materialize before the objective sense.

Death is more frequently foretold by dream messages or visions, as explained in another part of this chapter.

During sleep the will is suspended, leaving the mind often a prey to its own fancy. The slightest attack of an enemy may be foretold by the unbridled imagination exaggerating the mental picture into a monstrous shark or snake, when, indeed, a much less portentous sign was cast from the dream mold.
A woman may see a serpent in waking life and through fright lose reason
or self-control. She imagines it pursues her when in reality it is going
an opposite direction; in a like way dreams may be many times unreal.

The mind loses its reason or will in sleep, but a supersensitive
perception is awakened, and, as it regains consciousness from sleep,
the sound of a knock on the wall may be magnified into a pistol shot.
The sleeping mind is not only supersensitive as to existing external sounds
and light, but it frequently sees hours and days ahead of the waking mind.

Nor is this contradictory to the laws of nature. The ant housed










in the depth of the earth, away from atmospheric changes,
knows of the approach of the harvest, and comes forth to lay by his store.

In a like manner, the pet squirrel is a better barometer of the local weather
than the Weather Bureau. With unerring foresight, when a wintry frown nowhere mars the horizon, he is able to apprehend a cold wave twenty-four hours ahead, and build his house accordingly.

So in sleep, man dreams the future by intuitive perception of invisible
signs or influences, while awake he reasons it out by cause and effect.
The former seems to be the law of the spiritual world, while the latter
would appear to be the law of the material world. Man should not depend alone upon either. Together they proclaim the male and female principle of existence and should find harmonious consummation.
In this manner only can man hope to achieve that perfect normal
state to which the best thought of the human race is aspiring,
where he can create and control influences instead of being
created and controlled by them, as the majority of us are at
the present day.

God, the highest subjective source of intelligence, may in a
dream leave impressions or presentiments on the mind of man, the highest objective source of intelligence.
The physical sun sends its light into the dark corners of the earth, and God, the Spiritual Sun, imparts spiritual light into the passive and receptive soul.
Man, by hiding in a cave, or closing the windows and doors of his house, may shut out all physical light; so he may steep his soul in sensual
debauchery until all spiritual light is shut out.

Just as the vital essence of the soil, the mother of nature,
may be extracted by abuse, either from omission or commission, until neither the light of the sun, nor the moisture of the heavens will wake the flush of life, so may the spiritual essence
be deadened when the soil of the soul is filled with the aged
and multiplying weeds of ravishing materiality.

The dream mind is often influenced by the waking mind.








When the waking mind dwells upon any subject, the dream mind is more or less influenced by it, and it often assists the waking
mind in solving difficult problems. The personal future,
embodied in the active states of the universal mind,
may affect the dream mind, producing premonitions of death,
accidents and misfortune.

The objective mind rejoices or laments over the aspects of the past
and present, while the spiritual mind, striving with the personal future, either laments or rejoices over the prospective conditions.
One is the barometer of the past, while the other is the barometer of the future.

If we study carefully the spiritual impressions left upon the dream mind,
through the interpretations of this book, we will be able to shape our future in accordance with spiritual law.

Thus our temporal events will contribute to our spiritual development,
and in turn our spiritual knowledge will contribute to our temporal welfare. Without this harmonious interaction of the two great forces in man,
the Divine plan of destiny cannot be reached.

This can only be accomplished through the material mind
or reason dominating the animal emotions of the heart.
In this way we would not covet our neighbor's goods, or grow angry with our brother over trifles.
The house vacated by the sefish{sic} appetites of the world would be filled with the whispers of spiritual love and wisdom necessary to the mutual welfare and development of body and soul.
The theory used in this book to interpret dreams is both simple and rational. By the using of it you will be surprised to find so many of the predictions fulfilled in your waking life. We deal with both the thought and the dream. The thought or sign implied in the object dreamed of and the influence
surrounding it are always considered in the interpretation.
Thoughts proceed from the visible mind and dreams from the invisible mind.
The average waking mind receives and retains only a few of the lessons
of life. It is largely filled with idle and incoherent thoughts that
are soon forgotten. The same may be truly said of the dream mind.








Many of our day thoughts are day dreams, just as many of our night dreams are night thoughts. Our day deeds of evil or good pierce or soothe
the conscience, just as our night symbols of sorrow and joy sadden or please the objective senses. Our day's thoughts are filled with the warnings
and presence of the inner mind and our night's thoughts are tinctured
and often controlled by our external mind.
Some writer has said: ``Everything that exists upon earth has its
ethereal counterpart.'' Christ said: ``As a man thinketh so is he.''
A Hindu proverb says: ``Man is a creature of reflection; he becomes
that upon which he reflects.'' A modern ****physicist says:
``Our thoughts are real substance and leave their images upon
our personality, they fill our aura with beauty or ugliness according
to our intents and purposes in life.'' Each evil thought or action
has its pursuing phantom, each smile or kindly deed its guiding angel,
we leave wherever we ignobly stand, a tomb and an epitaph to haunt
us through the furnace of conscience and memory.

Closely following in the wake of our multiplying evil thoughts are armies
of these ghastly spectres pursuing each other with the exact intents
and purposes of the mind that gave them being. If we consider well these
facts we will be forced into thinking our best thoughts at all times.
Thoughts are the subjective and creative force that produces action.
Action is the objective effect of thought; hence the character of our daily
thoughts is making our failure or success of to-morrow.
The impersonal mind deals with all time and things as ever present.
The objective mind is constantly striving to penetrate
the spiritual realm, while the spiritual mind is striving to
enter matter, hence our actions have their subjective counterparts
and their subethereal counterparts. The universal mind,
in harmony with the evolutionary plans and laws of the macrocosms,
materializes through functions of the microcosm, imparting to each,
with its routine of failure and success, its daily objectivity.
The inner or passive dream mind may perceive the subjective types
or antitypes many days before they objectify through the microcosm.
Their meaning is often wrapt in symbols, but sometimes
the actual as it occurs in objective life is conveyed.
Our own thought images which have passed before the objective mind
may be perceived by the clever mind reader, but those antitypes
which are affecting our future, but which have none other
but subjective existence, are rarely ever perceived by any one










except by the power of the higher self or the spirit within.
For this reason we are enjoined by the sages to study self.
With the physical mind we only see physical objects,
with the subjective mind we see only subjective objects.
This was Paul's doctrine and it is the belief of the best
psychic thought of this century. By means of our reason--
an objective process for divining the future--aided by mathematical
and geographical data, we may outline the storm centers and the path
of the rain days before they appear in certain localities.
After eliminating all contingencies arising from clerical
error and counteracting influence, the prognostication is sure
of fulfilment. For centuries ahead the astronomer foretells
the eclipse of the moon and the sun and the arrival of comets.
He does not do this by crossing the borderland dividing the spiritual
from the physical world. In a like manner the subjective
forces operate upon their own planes and know very little
even of their own corporal realm, just as our physical senses
know little, if anything, of the soul or spiritual habitation.
They know that by gross living the sense of conscience may
be dulled, or that by right living it may be strengthened.
In like manner the subjective mind perceives by its own senses
certain invisible types of evil seeking external manifestations
in the microcosm. It knows that these forms of error will work
harm to the objective mind, and that if persisted in they
will pervert all intercourse or interchange of counsel between
the two factions of the man. In this there is no spiritual
perception of physical objects, any more than there is in mundane
life a sense perception of spiritual images and antitypes.
The former only sees the forms that manifest on its plane,
while the latter can note only those common to its sphere.
Each may recognize and feel the violence or good that these
manifestations will do to their respective counterparts,
but we have no reason to believe that normal objective or
subjective states have visional powers beyond their own plane.
The mind of man acting upon the mind of the macrocosm will produce,
according as he thinks or acts, antitypes of good or evil in
the imagination of the world which is reflected upon the spiritual
aura of the microcosm previous to taking on corporal form.
While in this state they may be perceived by subjectivity,
and thus the images seen are impressed on the dream mind
during sleep, or on the passivity of the objective sense.










Evil or righteous acts recently committed will more acutely affect
the present waking mind than those enacted at a more remote period.
In a similar way future disaster or success which is soon to occur
will impress the dream mind more vividly than those which are
to transpire at a later date. But in the lives of all men there
are past incidents which they will never forget, and which
will never cease to fill their hearts with pride or remorse.
So, too, in their distant future there are important events
to transpire which are struggling through tumultuous infinitude
to leave their ghastly or smiling impress upon the dream mind.
If your mental states are passive you will receive the warnings.
There are cases on record which show events have been forecast
years ahead of their occurrence.

We do not claim that this book will prove an interpreter of all dreams,
or that the keys disclosed will open to you all the mysteries of the future,
or even all those surrounding your own personality, but by studying
the definitions and the plane upon which they were written, you will be able,
through the power of your own spirit, to interpret your own dreams.
The combination of dream and dream influences are as infinite as the stars,
or the combination of thought and number. They can only be classed
and considered as such. They cannot be analyzed in detail or as a whole.
In mathematics we have nine digits from which an infinite variety
of combinations may be formed and solved by the deduction of the mind.
Through them we may measure time, space, quality and quantity.

The symbol o and I exist by reason of _no thing_ and _some
thing_ or death and life. The figure one is subject to
illimitable expansion. It is without beginning in the infinite
of number, as God is without beginning in the infinite of being.
As with the vegetable kingdom, the tiny seed or acorn silently
working its magical transformation into a plant or tree,
and directing its destiny with marvelous intelligence
through the torrid and frigid vicissitudes of the seasons;
so is man without beginning in the infinitude of his own
being or microcosm. Man is both a type and antitype.
A type of what pre-existed in the imagination of the world, and an
antitype of a future life yet to manifest itself on another plane
where the incidents of the one will be subjective, as the events
occurring in infancy or in other planes are now subjective.
His dreams, thoughts and actions, and the influences that
produce them and their multiplying combination, cannot be








numbered or reproduced any more than you can number the leaves
of the forest, or find two exactly similar units among them.
Thus the full meaning or interpretation of dreams cannot be fully
demonstrated through mental or even spiritual stereotypes.
But by the intelligent use of this book you will be able to trace
out almost any dream combination and arrive at the true nature
of its portent.

A wise doctor, in preparing medicine for a patient,
considers well his age, temperament and his present condition.
So should the interpreter of dreams ponder well the mental state, the health, habits and temperament of the dreamer.
These things no one can know so well as the dreamer himself. He, therefore, with the aid of this book, will be able to interpret his dreams by the light that is in him.

Man is the microcosm or a miniature world. He has a soul and
mental firmament, bounded by the stellar dust and the milky way, and filled with the mystery of suns, satellites and stars.
These he can study best by the astronomy of induction and introspection. He has also a physical plane, diversified by oceans,
lakes, rivers, fertile valleys, waste places and mountains.
All are in cosmic interdependency as they are in the macrocosm.
Here rests the mystery of being--the grandest of subjects!
The student is no less bewildered and awed than the geologist
who gropes blindly through the seams of the earth searching
for links in the infinite chain of knowledge, or the astronomer
sweeping the heavens of the macrocosm in quest of new phenomena.
The two planes are dependent upon each other. It is the smile
or disease of the firmament that blesses or diseases the earth.
It is likewise the impure firmament of the microcosm that diseases
the body and soul. If it reflects the drought of thought or the
various states of evil, deserts will enlarge, forest of infectious,
venomous growth will form the habitation of lust and murder.
Before great moral or physical revolutions or catastrophes occur,
clouds will darken the horizon of the dream mind; storms will gather,
lurid flames of lightning will flash their volatile anger;
the explosive thunder will recklessly carry on its bombardment;
bells will ring, strange knocking will be heard--symbols of a message--
phantom forms will be seen, familiar voices will call and plead
with you, unknown visitors will threaten you, unearthly struggles
with hideous giants and agonies of mind and body will possess you;










malformations of the most hideous type will seize your vision;
shrouded in sheets of a whitish vapor, evanescent specters,
with pallid face and of warning countenance, will cling around you,
and contagion and famine will leave their desolate impress upon
the flower of health and in the field of plenty. Thus all of us
would be nightly warned in our circle or miniature world if we
would develop subjective strength to retain the impressions left
upon our dream mind. But in spite of all reason and conscience--
in spite of the inductive knowledge received through our senses--
we go on from day to day, and step by step, feeding our soul
on the luscious fruit of the outward senses, until the rank
weeds of sefishness{sic} have choked out all other forces.
Thus the soul is filled with thought images that assume the form
of vicious animals, homely visaged fowls, rabid and snarling
cats and dogs, leprous and virile serpents, cankerous lizards,
slimy intestine worms, hairy and malicious insects.
They are generated by greed, envy, jealousy, covetousness, backbiting,
amorous longings and other impure thoughts. With the soul filled
with this conglomeration of virus and filth, why doubt a hell and its
counterpart condition, or expect the day or night to bring happiness?
If evil thoughts will infest the soul with ravenous microbes,
good thoughts and deeds will starve and suppress their activity,
and create a heaven to supplant them. With this grand and eternal
truth in view, man should ever think kindly of those about him,
control his temper in word and action, seek his own, think the best
of thoughts, study to relieve the worthy poor, seek solace in the depth
of being, and let gentleness and meekness characterize his life.
Then will he sow the seeds of a present and future heaven.
His day thoughts and his night thoughts in harmony will point
with unerring forecast to a peaceful end. Spiritual and helpful
warnings will fall upon the dream mind, as gently as dew upon
the flowers and as softly as a mother's kiss upon the lips of love.
When our external lives are guided by the forces within,
sweet are the words and messages from our own spirit;
for those who are truly blessed are those who seek divine love
through the channels of their inner world of consciousness.




{illust. caption = A DIAGRAM GIVING THE THEORY OF THIS BOOK,
AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MICROCOSM AND THE MACROCOSM.










FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS FROM DREAM REALMS:}


Man is a little circle or world composed of the infinitesimal atoms thrown
off from the great circle or parent world, and fitting into his place
in the zone of life. If in the revolutions of the great circle he catches
more material he increases his circle to objective or subjective growth:
if he absorbs spiritual or mind atoms as they fall from the great body
of creative source, he enlarges or contracts his own circle according
to the assimilation of the food he receives from the parent.

It is optional with man to obtain spiritual or material manna
as it is disseminated throughout existence. To feed on material
diet alone, contracts and distorts the circle of the man;
but a full comprehension of the needs of the circle, a proper
denial of supply to some of the compounds, together with a tender care of other parts, will round out the whole into a perfect
physical and mental circle of life.

Dissentious and conflicting results should be avoided in computing
the length and breadth of the compounded circle of man's individual world. Objective life is one of the smallest compounds in real life.

Dream life is fuller of meaning and teaching of the inner, or God life,
than is the exterior life of man. The mind receives education
from communing with the dream composition in the great circle.
Consult with your whole nature or circle before beginning a serious work; partial consultations, or material advice only, often brings defeat
of objects sought, when a true home counsel would have brought success and consequent happiness.
Man should live in his subjective realms and study more his
relation to other compositions or circles; thus fructifying
and making beautiful his own world through intercourse with
others who have worked in the great storehouse of subjectivity,
and who have climbed already from the basement into the light
of spiritual sunshine.

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A FEW QUESTIONS AND SUBJECTIVE ANSWERS REGARDING DREAMS.











QUESTION.--What is a dream?

ANSWER--A dream is an event transpiring in that world belonging to the mind when the objective senses have withdrawn into rest or oblivion.

Then the spiritual man is living alone in the future or ahead
of objective life and consequently lives man's future first,
developing conditions in a way that enables waking man to shape
his actions by warnings, so as to make life a perfect existence.

Q.--What relationship is sustained between the average man and his dreams?

A.--A dream to the average or sensual person, bears the same relation to his
objective life that it maintained in the case of the ideal dreamer, but it
means pleasures, sufferings and advancements on a lower or material plane.

Q.--Then why is man not always able to correctly interpret his dreams?
A.--Just as words fail sometimes to express ideas, so dreams fail sometimes in their mind pictures to portray coming events.
Q.--If they relate to the future, why is it we so often dream of the past?
A.--When a person dreams of past events, those events are warnings of evil or good; sometimes they are stamped so indelibly upon the subjective mind that the least tendency of the waking mind to the past throws these pictures in relief on the dream consciousness.

Q.--Why is it that present environments often influence our dreams?

A.--Because the future of man is usually affected by the present, so if he mars the present by wilful wrongs, or makes it bright by right living it will necessarily have influence on his dreams, as they are forecastings of the future.

Q.--What is an apparition?

A.--It is the subjective mind stored with the wisdom gained from futurity,
and in its strenuous efforts to warn its present habitation--
the corporal body--of dangers just ahead, takes on the shape of a dear










one as the most effective method of imparting this knowledge.

Q.--How does subjectivity deal with time?

A.--There is no past and future to subjectivity. It is all one living present.
Q.--If that is so, why can't you tell us accurately of our future as you do of our past?

A.--Because events are like a procession; they pass a few at a time
and cast a shadow on subjective minds, and those which have passed before the waking mind are felt by other minds also and necessarily make a more lasting impression on the subjective mind.

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Q.--To illustrate: A person on retiring or closing his eyes had a face appear to him, the forehead well formed but the lower parts distorted. Explain this phenomenon?

A.--A changed state from perfect sleep or waking possessed him.

Now, the man's face was only the expression of his real
thoughts and the state of his business combined.
His thoughts were strong and healthy, but his business fagging,
hence his own spirit is not a perfect likeness of his own soul,
as it takes every atom of earthly composition perfectly normal
to reproduce a perfect spirit picture of the soul or mortal man.
He would have seen a true likeness of himself had conditions
been favorable; thus a man knows when a complete whole is
his portion. Study to make surroundings always harmonious.
Life is only being perfectly carried on when these conditions
are in unison.


HOW TO DEVELOP THE POWER TO DREAM.

Keep the mind clear and as free from material rubbish as is
possible and go to sleep in a negative condition (this will,








of course, have to be cultivated by the subject). A person can, if he will, completely relax his mind and body to the receptive mood required for dreams to appear as realities, or true
explanations of future events.

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To dream you are conversing with a dead relative, and that
relative endeavors to extract a promise from you, warns you
of coming distress unless you follow the advice given.
Disastrous consequences could be averted if minds could grasp
the inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self.
The voice of relatives is only that higher self taking form to approach more distinctly the mind that lives near the material plane.
There is so little congeniality between common or material
natures that persons should depend more largely upon their own subjectivity for true *******ment and pleasure.

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DREAMS EXAGGERATED.

The will is suspended during sleep, so the dream mind is more a prey to excitability than the waking mind.
Thus when images appear upon the dream vision they are frequently distorted into hideous malformations that fill it with fear and excitement.


CONTRARY DREAMS.


The constant dwelling of the mind upon certain things distorts
their shapes upon subjectivity, thus throwing dreams in exactly
opposite channels to the waking reality. Yet the dreamer always
feels a sense of being awake in dreams like these, and on awakening
experiences no recuperation of mind or body after such contrary dreams, Sleep is not fully sustained while the dreamer is held by material
ideas in the subjective state.










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WHEN DREAMS ARE LESS PRESCIENT.


The cessation of the organs to perform healthful functions converts a man into a different person, and dreams while in this state would have no prophetic meaning, unless to warn the dreamer of this
disorganization of his physical system.

Dreams are symbols used by subjectivity to impress the objective
or material mind with a sense of coming good or evil. Subjectivity is
the spiritual part of man. The soul is that circle of man lying
just outside the gross materiality and partaking largely of it.
All thoughts and desires enter first the soul or material mind
and then cast themselves on the spirit. Frequently the soul becomes
so filled with material or present ideas, that the spiritual symbols
are crowded out, and then it is that dreams seen to be contrary.
Material subjectivity, that is, all thoughts and ideas emanating
from material sources, go to make up this circle; then the mind
catches up the better thoughts of this section and weaves them
into a broader and more comprehensive power, sustaining the owner
in his own judgment.

And still another circle is formed of the finer compound of this,
which is spiritual subjectivity, or the highest element of intelligence
reached by man. [This circle is ``the spiritual man'' and relates
in substance to the spiritual soul of the macrocosm or universe.
It becomes strong or weak as we recognize or fail to recognize
it as a factor of being. The process of spiritual development
is similar to that of the vegetable and animal kingdoms.
The trees on the outer rim of the forest are more capable of resisting
the wind than those more to the center, by reason of their exposure
to storms; the roots have penetrated with double strength far
into the earth, and the branches are braced with toughened bark
and closely knitted ligaments.
The same may be said of the animal kingdom. The mind is developed
by vigorous exercise just as are likewise the muscles of the body.
The more these are cultivated by drawing from their parental affinities
in the macrocosm, the more knowledge or power they take on.
Thus as a man simulates in thought and action an ape, a tiger, a goat,










a snake or a lamb he takes on their characteristics and is swayed by
like influences to enmity, meekness, covetousness and avariciousness.
To illustrate further. If he is cunning he draws on the fox of
the microcosm and becomes, in action and thought, like that animal.
If selfishness survives, the hog principle is aroused from its latent
cells in the microcosm and he is dominated by material appetites.
In a similar way he may perceive the spiritual in himself.
Nature's laws, with all their numberless and intricate ramifications
are simple in their harmony of process and uniformity of purpose
when applied to the physical and ethical developments of man.]
Possibilities for inner improvements or expansions rest with material man. If he entertains gross desires to the exclusion of spiritual germs,
he will dwarf and degrade higher aspirations, and thus deprive subjective spirituality of her rightful possessions.

*


Nature, in compounding the materials for the creation of the deaf man,
inadvertently dropped the ingredient sound, hence making an imperfect being;
and sound, being thus foreign to his nature, he can only be approached
by signs even in dreams. Subjectivity uses nature's forces,
while a normal person uses dreams to work on his waking consciousness.
As it is impossible to use with effect a factor which a man does not
naturally possess, a deaf man rarely ever dreams of sound, or a blind
man of light.

*

TWO DREAMS ARE NEVER THE SAME, NOR ARE TWO FLOWERS EVER ALIKE.


Whatever symbol is used to impress the dreamer is the one
which is likely to warn him more definitely than any other.
No two persons being ever in the same state at the same time, the same symbols would hardly convey identical impressions; neither will the same dream be as effective in all cases
of business or love with the same dreamer.
A person's dream perception wavers, much as it does in waking hours. You fail to find the same fragrance in the rose at all times,








though the same influences seemingly surround you; and thus it is that different dreams must be used for different persons to convey the same meaning.

Creation, confident of her power to perfect her designs,
does not resort to that monotony in her work, which might result were the perception of man, or the petals and fragrance of flowers cast from one stereotyped mold of intelligence, beauty or sweetness. This variety of scheme runs through all creation.
You think you have identical dreams, but there is always
some variation, even if it be something dreamed immediately over.
Nature is no sluggard and is forever changing her compounds,
so that there is bound to be change in the details even of dreams.
This change would not materially affect the approach of happiness
or sorrow in different people, and hence the same dreams are
reliable for all.
Persons of the same or similar temperament will be more deeply impressed by a certain dream than would people their opposite; and though the dream cannot be the same in detail yet it is
apparently the same, just as two like flowers are called roses, though they are not identical.
If a young woman twenty-five and a girl of fifteen should each have a dream of marriage, the same definition would apply to each, just the same
as if they would each approach a flower and smell of it differently.
Different influences will possess them unconsciously, though the outward
appearance be the same.
A young woman of a certain age is warned in a dream of trouble
likely to befall her, while another of similar age and
threatened trouble is warned also, but in different symbols,
which she fails to grasp and bring back to waking existence,
and she thus believes she has had no warning dream.
There are those in the world who lack subjective strength, material or spiritual, and hence they fail to receive dreams, however symbolic, because there is no power within them to retain these impressions.
There are many reasons for this loss, utter material gross-ness, want
of memory, physical weakness uncoupled from extreme nervousness,








and total lack of faith in any warning or revelation purporting or coming from the dream consciousness.
To dream at night and the following day have the thing dreamed of
actually take place, or come before your notice, is not allegorical.
It is the higher or spiritual sense living or grasping the immediate
future ahead of the physical mind. The spiritual body is
always first to come into contact with the approaching future;
it is present with it, while still future to the physical body.
There is no reason why man should not grasp coming events earlier,
only he does not cultivate inner sight as he does his outer senses.
The allegorical is used because man weakens his spiritual force
by catering to the material senses.
He clings to the pleasures and woes of the material world to the exclusion of spirituality.




WHAT'S IN A DREAM.


A.


``_When he was set down on the Judgment seat, his wife sent
unto him, saying, `Have thou nothing to do with that just man;
for I have suffered many things this day in a dream, because of him_.' ''--Matthew xxvii, 19.

_Abandon_.

To dream that you are abandoned, denotes that you will have difficulty in framing your plans for future success.
To abandon others, you will see unhappy conditions piled thick around you, leaving little hope of surmounting them.
If it is your house that you abandon, you will soon come to grief in experimenting with fortune.

If you abandon your sweetheart, you will fail to recover lost valuables,










and friends will turn aside from your favors.

If you abandon a mistress, you will unexpectedly come into a goodly inheritance.
If it is religion you abandon, you will come to grief by your attacks on prominent people.
To abandon children, denotes that you will lose your fortune by lack of calmness and judgment.
To abandon your business, indicates distressing circumstances in which there
will be quarrels and suspicion. (This dream may have a literal fulfilment
if it is impressed on your waking mind, whether you abandon a person,
or that person abandons you, or, as indicated, it denotes other worries.)
To see yourself or friend abandon a ship, suggests your possible entanglement in some business failure, but if you escape to shore your interests will remain secure.


_Abbey_.[3]
To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion.

To dream that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey,
denotes that you will be saved from a ruinous state by enemies mistaking your embarrassment for progress.
For a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness. If she converses with a priest in an abbey, she will incur the censure of true friends for indiscretion.

_Abbess_.

For a young woman to dream that she sees an abbess, denotes that she will be compelled to perform distasteful tasks, and will submit
to authority only after unsuccessful rebellion.
To dream of an abbess smiling and benignant, denotes you will be surrounded by true friends and pleasing prospects.











_Abbot_.[3]

To dream that you are an abbot, warns you that treacherous plots are being laid for your downfall.
If you see this pious man in devotional exercises, it forewarns you of smooth flattery and deceit pulling you a willing victim into the meshes of artful bewilderment.
For a young woman to talk with an abbot, portends that she will yield to insinuating flatteries, and in yielding she will besmirch her reputation. If she marries one, she will uphold her name and honor despite
poverty and temptation.
[3] See similar words in connection with churches, priests, etc. _Abdomen_.[4]

To see your abdomen in a dream, foretells that you will have
great expectations, but you must curb hardheadedness and redouble
your energies on your labor, as pleasure is approaching to your hurt.
To see your abdomen shriveled, foretells that you will be persecuted and defied by false friends.
To see it swollen, you will have tribulations, but you will overcome them and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
To see blood oozing from the abdomen, foretells an accident or tragedy in your family.
The abdomen of children in an unhealthy state, portends that contagion will pursue you.
[4] See Belly.
_Abhor_.
To dream that you abhor a person, denotes that you will entertain strange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his honesty will prove correct.









To think yourself held in abhorrence by others, predicts that your good intentions to others will subside into selfishness.
For a young woman to dream that her lover abhors her, foretells that she will love a man who is in no sense congenial.

_Abject_.

To dream that you are abject, denotes that you will be the recipient of gloomy tidings, which will cause a relaxation in your strenuous efforts to climb the heights of prosperity.
To see others abject, is a sign of bickerings and false dealings among your friends.

_Abode_.[5]

To dream that you can't find your abode, you will completely lose faith in the integrity of others.

If you have no abode in your dreams, you will be unfortunate in your affairs, and lose by speculation.

To change your abode, signifies hurried tidings and that hasty journeys will be made by you.
For a young woman to dream that she has left her abode, is significant of slander and falsehoods being perpetrated against her.

[5] See Home.

_Abortion_.

For a woman to dream that she assents to abortion being committed on her, is a warning that she is contemplating some enterprise which if carried
out will steep her in disgrace and unhappiness.

For a doctor to dream that he is a party to an abortion, foretells that his practice will suffer from his inattention to duty, which will cause much trouble.










_Above_.

To see anything hanging above you, and about to fall, implies danger;
if it falls upon you it may be ruin or sudden disappointment.
If it falls near, but misses you, it is a sign that you will have
a narrow escape from loss of money, or other misfortunes may follow.
Should it be securely fixed above you, so as not to imply danger, your condition will improve after threatened loss.

_Abroad_.

To dream that you are abroad, or going abroad, foretells that you will soon, in company with a party, make a pleasant trip, and you will find it necessary to absent yourself from your native country for a sojourn in a different climate.

_Absalom_.
To dream of Absalom, is significant of distressing incidents.
You may unconsciously fall a victim to error, and penetrate
some well beloved heart with keen anguish and pain over the
committal of immoral actions and the outraging of innocence.
No flower of purity will ever be too sacred for you to breathe
a passionate breath upon. To dream of this, or any other
disobedient character, is a warning against immoral tendencies.
A father is warned by this dream to be careful of his children.

_Absence_.

To grieve over the absence of any one in your dreams, denotes that repentance
for some hasty action will be the means of securing you life-long friendships.
If you rejoice over the absence of friends, it denotes that you will soon be well rid of an enemy.

_Abscess_.

To dream that you have an abscess which seems to have reached a chronic stage, you will be overwhelmed with misfortune of your own; at the same time your
deepest sympathies will be enlisted for the sorrows of others.










_Absinthe_.

To come under the influence of absinthe in dreams, denotes that you
will lead a merry and foolish pace with innocent companions, and waste your inheritance in prodigal lavishness on the siren, selfish fancy.
For a young woman to dream that she drinks absinthe with her lover warns
her to resist his persuasions to illicit consummation of their love. If she
dreams she is drunk, she will yield up her favors without strong persuasion.
(This dream typifies that you are likely to waste your energies in pleasure.)

_Abundance_.

To dream that you are possessed with an abundance;
foretells that you will have no occasion to reproach Fortune,
and that you will be independent of her future favors;
but your domestic happiness may suffer a collapse under the strain you are likely to put upon it by your infidelity.

_Abuse_.

To dream of abusing a person, means that you will be unfortunate
in your affairs, losing good money through over-bearing persistency in business relations with others.
To feel yourself abused, you will be molested in your daily pursuits by the enmity of others.
For a young woman to dream that she hears abusive ********, foretells that she will fall under the ban of some person's jealousy and envy.
If she uses the ******** herself, she will meet with unexpected rebuffs,
that may fill her with mortification and remorse for her past unworthy
conduct toward friends.

_Abyss_.

To dream of looking into an abyss, means that you will be confronted by threats of seizure of property, and that there will be quarrels
and reproaches of a personal nature which will unfit you to meet
the problems of life.

For a woman to be looking into an abyss, foretells that she will










burden herself with unwelcome cares. If she falls into the abyss
her disappointment will be complete; but if she succeeds in crossing, or avoiding it, she will reinstate herself.

_Academy_.

To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities that you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference.

To think you own, or are an inmate of one, you will find that you
are to meet easy defeat of aspirations. You will take on knowledge, but be unable to rightly assimilate and apply it.
For a young woman or any person to return to an academy after having finished there, signifies that demands will be made which the dreamer may find himself or her self unable to meet.

_Accepted_.[6]
For a business man to dream that his proposition has been accepted, foretells that he will succeed in making a trade, which heretofore
looked as if it would prove a failure.
For a lover to dream that he has been accepted by his sweetheart, denotes that he will happily wed the object of his own
and others' admiration.

[6] If this dream has been occasioned by overanxiety and weakness,
the contrary may be expected. The elementary influences often play
pranks upon weak and credulous minds by lying, and deceptive utterances.
Therefore the dreamer should live a pure life, fortified by a strong will,
thus controlling his destiny by expelling from it involuntary intrusions.

_Accident_.

To dream of an accident is a warning to avoid any mode of travel for a short period, as you are threatened with loss of life.

For an accident to befall stock, denotes that you will struggle
with all your might to gain some object and then see some friend lose property of the same value in aiding your cause.










_Accordion_.

To dream of hearing the music of an accordion, denotes that you will
engage in amusement which will win you from sadness and retrospection.
You will by this means be enabled to take up your burden more cheerfully.
For a young woman to dream that she is playing an accordion,
portends that she will win her lover by some sad occurrence;
but, notwithstanding which, the same will confer lasting
happiness upon her union. If the accordion gets out of tune,
she will be saddened by the illness or trouble of her lover.

_Accounts_.

To dream of having accounts presented to you for payment,
you will be in a dangerous position. You may have recourse
to law to disentangle yourself. If you pay the accounts,
you will soon effect a compromise in some serious dispute.
To hold accounts against others, foretells that disagreeable contingencies
will arise in your business, marring the smoothness of its management.

For a young woman book-keeper to dream of footing up accounts,
denotes that she will have trouble in business, and in her love affairs;
but some worthy person will persuade her to account for his happiness. She will be much respected by her present employers.

_Accuse_.[7]

To dream that you accuse any one of a mean action, denotes that you will have quarrels with those under you, and your dignity will be thrown from a high pedestal.
If you are accused, you are in danger of being guilty of distributing scandal in a sly and malicious way.
[7] See similar words in following chapters.
_Aches_.[8]
To dream that you have aches, denotes that you are halting too
much in your business, and that some other person is profiting










by your ideas.

For a young woman to dream that she has the heartache, foretells that she will be in sore distress over the laggardly way her lover prosecutes his suit.
If it is the backache, she will encounter illness through careless exposure.
If she has the headache, there will be much disquietude of mind for the risk she has taken to rid herself of rivalry.
[8] This dream is usually due to physical causes and is of little significance.

_Acid_.

To drink any acid is an adverse dream, bringing you much anxiety.

For a woman to drink aciduous liquors, denotes that she may ensnare
herself with compromising situations; even health may be involved.

To see poisonous acids, some treachery against you may be discovered.

_Acorn_.

Seeing acorns in dreams, is portent of pleasant things ahead, and much gain is to be expected.

To pick them from the ground, foretells success after weary labors.

For a woman to eat them, denotes that she will rise from a station of labor to a position of ease and pleasure.
To shake them from the trees, denotes that you will rapidly attain your wishes in business or love.
To see green-growing acorns, or to see them scattered over the ground, affairs will change for the better. Decayed or blasted acorns have import of disappointments and reverses.
To pull them green from the trees, you will injure your interests by haste and indiscretion.

_Acquaintance_.[9]








To meet an acquaintance, and converse pleasantly with him, foretells that your business will run smoothly, and there will be but little discord in your domestic affairs.
If you seem to be disputing, or engaged in loud talk, humiliations and embarrassments will whirl seethingly around you.
If you feel ashamed of meeting an acquaintance, or meet him
at an inopportune time, it denotes that you will be guilty
of illicitly conducting yourself, and other parties will let
the secret out.
For a young woman to think that she has an extensive acquaintance, signifies that she will be the possessor of vast interests, and her love will be worthy the winning. If her circle of acquaintances is small, she will be unlucky in gaining social favors.
[9] After dreaming of acquaintances, you may see or hear from them. _Acquit_.
To dream that you are acquitted of a crime, denotes that you
are about to come into possession of valuable property,
but there is danger of a law suit before obtaining possession.

To see others acquitted, foretells that your friends will add pleasure to your labors.

_Acrobat_.

To dream of seeing acrobats, denotes that you will be prevented from carrying out hazardous schemes by the foolish fears of others.
To see yourself acrobating, you will have a sensation to answer for, and your existence will be made almost unendurable by the guying of your enemies.

To see women acrobating, denotes that your name will be maliciously
and slanderously handled. Also your business interests will be hindered.
For a young woman to dream that she sees acrobats in tights, signifies that she will court favor of men.











_Actor and Actress_.

To see in your dreams an actress, denotes that your present state will be one of unbroken pleasure and favor.
To see one in distress, you will gladly contribute your means and influence to raise a friend from misfortune and indebtedness.
If you think yourself one, you will have to work for subsistence, but your labors will be pleasantly attended.
If you dream of being in love with one, your inclination and talent will be allied with pleasure and opposed to downright toil.

To see a dead actor, or actress, your good luck will be overwhelmed in violent and insubordinate misery.
To see them wandering and penniless, foretells that your affairs will undergo a change from promise to threatenings of failure.
To those enjoying domestic comforts, it is a warning of revolution and faithless vows.
For a young woman to dream that she is engaged to an actor, or about to marry one, foretells that her fancy will bring
remorse after the glamor of pleasure has vanished.

If a man dreams that he is sporting with an actress,
it foretells that private broils with his wife, or sweetheart, will make him more misery than enjoyment.

_Adam and Eve_.

To dream of Adam and Eve, foretells that some eventful occasion will rob you of the hope of success in your affairs.

To see them in the garden, Adam dressed in his fig leaf, but Eve perfectly
nude save for an Oriental colored serpent ornamenting her waist and abdomen,
signifies that treachery and ill faith will combine to overthrow your fortune.
To see or hear Eve conversing with the serpent, foretells that artful women will reduce you to the loss of fortune and reputation.











_Adamant_.

To dream of adamant, denotes that you will be troubled and defeated in some desire that you held as your life.

_Adder_.

To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems
to be lying down and breathing, rises partly to a sitting position when
the adder strikes at him, and then both disappearing into some bushes nearby, denotes that you will be greatly distressed over the ill luck of friends,
and a loss threatened to yourself.

For a young woman to see an adder, foretells a deceitful
person is going to cause her trouble. If it runs from her,
she will be able to defend her character in attacks made on her.

_Addition_.

To dream of pondering over addition, denotes that you will have a struggle to overcome difficult situations, which will soon prominently assume
formidable shapes in your business transactions.

To find some error in addition, shows that you will be able
to overcome enemies by fortunately discerning their intention before they have executed their design.
To add figures with a machine, foretells that you will have a powerful ally who will save you from much oppression.
If you fail to read the figures, you will lose fortune by blind speculation. _Adieu_.
To dream of bidding cheerful adieus to people, denotes that you will make pleasant visits and enjoy much social festivity;
but if they are made in a sad or doleful strain, you will endure loss and bereaving sorrow.
If you bid adieu to home and country, you will travel in the nature of an exile from fortune and love.











To throw kisses of adieu to loved ones, or children, foretells that you
will soon have a journey to make, but there will be no unpleasant accidents or happenings attending your trip.

_Admire_.

To dream that you are an object of admiration, denotes that you will retain the love of former associates, though your position will take you above their circle.

_Admonish_.

To admonish your child, or son, or some young person,
denotes that your generous principles will keep you in favor, and fortune will be added to your gifts.

_Adopted_.
To see your adopted child, or parent, in your dreams, indicates that you
will amass fortune through the schemes and speculations of strangers.
To dream that you or others are adopting a child, you will make an unfortunate change in your abode.

_Adultery_.[10]

To dream that you commit adultery, foretells that you will be
arrainged{sic} for some illegal action. If a woman has this dream,
she will fail to hold her husband's affections, letting her
temper and spite overwhelm her at the least provocation.
If it is with her husband's friend, she will be unjustly ignored
by her husband. Her rights will be cruelly trampled upon by him.
If she thinks she is enticing a youth into this act, she will be
in danger of desertion and divorced for her open intriguing.
For a young woman this implies abasement and low desires,
in which she will find strange adventures afford her pleasure.

[10] It is always good to dream that you have successfully resisted
any temptation. To yield, is bad. If a man chooses low ideals, vampirish
influences will swarm around him ready to help him in his nefarious designs.








Such dreams may only be the result of depraved elementary influences. If a man chooses high ideals, he will be illuminated by the deific
principle within him, and will be exempt from lascivious dreams.
The man who denies the existence and power of evil spirits has no arcana or occult knowledge. Did not the black magicians of Pharaoh's time,
and Simon Magnus, the Sorcerer, rival the men of God? The dreamer
of amorous sweets is warned to beware of scandal.

_Adulation_.

To dream that you seek adulation, foretells that you will pompously fill unmerited positions of honor.
If you offer adulation, you will expressly part with some dear belonging in the hope of furthering material interests.

_Advancement_.

To dream of advancing in any engagement, denotes your rapid ascendency to preferment and to the consummation of affairs of the heart.

To see others advancing, foretells that friends will hold positions of favor near you.

_Adversary_.[11]

To dream that you meet or engage with an adversary, denotes that you will promptly defend any attacks on your interest.
Sickness may also threaten you after this dream.
If you overcome an adversary, you will escape the effect of some serious disaster.

[11] See Enemies.

_Adventurer_.

To dream that you are victimized by an adventurer, proves that you will be an easy prey for flatterers and designing villains.
You will be unfortunate in manipulating your affairs to
a smooth consistency.


For a young woman to think she is an adventuress, portends that she will be too wrapped up in her own conduct to see that she is being flattered into exchanging her favors for disgrace.

[Rouch]

Adversity_.

To dream that you are in the clutches of adversity, denotes that you will have failures and continued bad prospects.

To see others in adversity, portends gloomy surroundings, and the illness
of some one will produce grave fears of the successful working of plans.[12]

[12] The old dream books give this as a sign of coming prosperity.
This definition is untrue. There are two forces at work in man, one from
within and the other from without. They are from two distinct spheres;
the animal mind influenced by the personal world of carnal appetites,
and the spiritual mind from the realm of universal Brotherhood,
present antagonistic motives on the dream consciousness. If these two
forces were in harmony, the spirit or mental picture from the dream
mind would find a literal fulfilment in the life of the dreamer.
The pleasurable sensations of the body cause the spirit anguish.
The selfish enrichment of the body impoverishes the spirit influence upon
the Soul. The trials of adversity often cause the spirit to rejoice
and the flesh to weep. If the cry of the grieved spirit is left
on the dream mind it may indicate to the dreamer worldly advancement,
but it is hardly the theory of the occult forces, which have contributed
to the *******s of this book.

_Advertisement_.

To dream that you are getting out advertisements, denotes that you will have to resort to physical labor to promote your interest,
or establish your fortune.
To read advertisements, denotes that enemies will overtake you, and defeat you in rivalry.

_Advice_.

To dream that you receive advice, denotes that you will be enabled to raise your standard of integrity, and strive by honest means to reach independent competency and moral altitude.









To dream that you seek legal advice, foretells that there will be some transactions in your affairs which will create doubt of their merits and legality.

_Advocate_.

To dream that you advocate any cause, denotes that you will be faithful
to your interests, and endeavor to deal honestly with the public,
as your interests affect it, and be loyal to your promises to friends.

_Afraid_.

To feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue a journey, denotes that you will find trouble in your household, and enterprises will be unsuccessful.

To see others afraid, denotes that some friend will be deterred
from performing some favor for you because of his own difficulties.
For a young woman to dream that she is afraid of a dog,
there will be a possibility of her doubting a true friend.

_Africa_.

To dream that you are in Africa surrounded by Cannibals, foretells that you will be oppressed by enemies and quarrelsome persons.
For a woman to dream of African scenes, denotes she will make journeys which will prove lonesome and devoid of pleasure or profit.

_Afternoon_.

For a woman to dream of an afternoon, denotes she will form
friendships which will be lasting and entertaining. A cloudy,
rainy afternoon, implies disappointment and displeasure.

_Affliction_.

To dream that affliction lays a heavy hand upon you and calls your energy to a halt, foretells that some disaster is surely approaching you.








To see others afflicted, foretells that you will be surrounded by many ills and misfortunes.

_Affrighted_.

To dream that you are affrighted, foretells that you will sustain an injury through an accident.

[13] See Agony. {unable to tie this note to the text???}


To see others affrighted, brings you close to misery and distressing scenes. Dreams of this nature are frequently caused by nervous and feverish
conditions, either from malaria or excitement. When such is the case,
the dreamer is warned to take immediate steps to remove the cause.
Such dreams or reveries only occur when sleep is disturbed.

_Affront_.

This is a bad dream. The dreamer is sure to shed tears and weep.
For a young woman to dream that she is affronted, denotes that some unfriendly person will take advantage of her ignorance to place
her in a compromising situation with a stranger, or to jeopardize
her interests with a friend.

_Affluence_.[14]

To dream that you are in affluence, foretells that you will make
fortunate ventures, and will be pleasantly associated with
people of wealth. To young women, a vision of weird and fairy
affluence is ominous of illusive and evanescent pleasure.
They should study more closely their duty to friends and parents.
After dreams of this nature they are warned to cultivate a love
for home life.
[14] See Wealth.
_Agate_.
To see agate in a dream, signifies a slight advancement in business affairs.
_Age_.











To dream of age, portends failures in any kind of undertaking.

To dream of your own age, indicates that perversity of opinion will bring down upon you the indignation of relatives.
For a young woman to dream of being accused of being older than she is, denotes that she will fall into bad companionship, and her denial of stated things will be brought to scorn.
To see herself looking aged, intimates possible sickness,
or unsatisfactory ventures. If it is her lover she sees aged,
she will be in danger of losing him.

_Agony_.[15]

This is not as good a dream, as some would wish you to believe. It portends worry and pleasure intermingled, more of the former than of the latter.
To be in agony over the loss of money, or property, denotes that disturbing and imaginary fears will rack you over the critical condition of affairs,
or the illness of some dear relative.

[15] See Weeping.

_Ague_.

A sickly condition of the dreamer is sometimes implied by this dream.
To dream that you are shaking with an ague, signifies that you will suffer from some physical disorder, and that fluctuating opinions of your own affairs may bring you to the borders of prostration.
To see others thus affected, denotes that you will offend people by your supreme indifference to the influences of others.

_Air_.

This dream denotes a withering state of things, and bodes no good to the dreamer.
To dream of breathing hot air suggests that you will be influenced to evil by oppression.









To feel cold air, denotes discrepancies in your business, and incompatibility in domestic relations.
To feel oppressed with humidity, some curse will fall on you that will prostrate and close down on your optimistical views of the future.

_Alabaster_.

To dream of alabaster, foretells success in marriage and all
legitimate affairs. To break an alabaster figure or vessel,
denotes sorrow and repentence. For a young woman to lose an
alabaster box containing incense, signifies that she will lose
her lover or property through carelessness of her reputation.

_Alarm Bell_.
To hear a bell in your sleep, denotes that you will have cause for anxiety. _Album_.

To dream of an album, denotes you will have success and true friends.

For a young woman to dream of looking at photographs in an album, foretells that she will soon have a new lover who will be very
agreeable to her.

_Ale-house_.

The dreamer of an ale-house should be very cautious of his affairs. Enemies are watching him.

_Alien_.

To dream of a stranger pleasing you, denotes good health and
pleasant surroundings; if he displeases you, look for disappointments.
To dream you are an alien, denotes abiding friendships.
_Alley_.








To dream of an alley, denotes your fortune will not be so pleasing or promising as formerly. Many vexing cares will present
themselves to you.
For a young woman to wander through an alley after dark, warns her of disreputable friendships and a stigma on her character.

_Alligator_.

To dream of an alligator, unless you kill it, is unfavorable to all persons connected with the dream. It is a dream of caution.

_Alloy_.

To dream of alloy, denotes your business will vex you in its complications. For a woman to dream of alloy, is significant of sorrow and trouble
completely hiding pleasure.

_Almanac_.

To dream of an almanac, means variable fortunes and illusive pleasures. To be studying the signs, foretells that you will be harassed by small matters taking up your time.

_Almonds_.

This is a good omen. It has wealth in store. However, sorrow will go with it for a short while. If the almonds are defective,
your disappointment in obtaining a certain wish will be complete until new conditions are brought about.

_Alms_.

Alms will bring evil if given or taken unwillingly. Otherwise, a good dream.

_Alms-house_.

For a young woman to dream of an alms-house, denotes she will meet failure in her efforts to contract a worldly marriage.

_Altar_.








To dream of seing{sic} a priest at the altar, denotes quarrels
and unsatisfactory states in your business and home.
To see a marriage, sorrow to friends, and death to old age.
An altar would hardly be shown you in a dream, accept to warn you against the commission of error. Repentance is also implied.

_Alum_.

Alum seen in a dream, portends frustration of well laid plans.
To taste alum, denotes secret remorse over some evil work by you upon some innocent person.
For a woman to dream of quantities of alum, foretells disappointment in her marriage and loss of affection.

_Aluminum_.

To dream of aluminum, denotes *******ment with any fortune, however small. For a woman to see her aluminum ornaments or vessels tarnished,
foretells strange and unexpected sorrow, and loss will befall her.

_Amateur_.

To dream of seeing an amateur actor on the stage, denotes that you
will see your hopes pleasantly and satisfactorily fulfilled.
If they play a tragedy, evil will be disseminated through your happiness. If there is an indistinctness or distorted images in the dream,
you are likely to meet with quick and decided defeat in some enterprise apart from your regular business.

_Ambush_.

To dream that your are atacked{sic} from ambush, denotes that you have lurking secretly near you a danger, which will soon set upon and overthrow you if you are heedless of warnings.
If you lie in ambush to revenge yourself on others, you will unhesitatingly stoop to debasing actions to defraud your friends.

_America_.








High officials should be careful of State affairs, others will do well to look after their own person, for some trouble is at hand after this dream.

_Amethyst_.

Amethyst seen in a dream, represents *******ment with fair business.

For a young woman to lose an amethyst, fortells broken engagements and slights in love.

_Ammonia_.

Ammonia seen in a dream, means displeasure will be felt by the dreamer at the conduct of a friend. Quarrels and disruptions of friendships
will follow this dream.
For a young woman to see clear bottles of ammonia, foretells she will be deceived in the character and intentions of some person whom she considers friendly.

_Ammunition_.

To dream of ammunition, foretells the undertaking of some work, which promises fruitful completion. To dream your ammunition is exhausted, denotes fruitless struggles and endeavors.

_Amorous_.

To dream you are amorous, warns you against personal desires and pleasures, as they are threatening to engulf you in scandal.
For a young woman it portends illicit engagements, unless she chooses staid and moral companions. For a married woman, it foreshadows dis******* and desire for pleasure outside the home.
To see others amorous, foretells that you will be persuaded to neglect your moral obligations. To see animals thus, denotes you will engage in degrading pleasures with fast men or women.

_Amputation_.

Ordinary amputation of limbs, denotes small offices lost;








the loss of entire legs or arms, unusual depression in trade. To seamen, storm and loss of property. Afflicted persons should be warned to watchfulness after this dream.

_Anchor_.

To dream of an anchor is favorable to sailors, if seas are calm.
To others it portends separation from friends, change of residence, and foreign travel. Sweethearts are soon to quarrel if either
sees an anchor.

_Andirons_.

Andirons seen in a dream, denotes good will among friends,
if the irons support burning logs; if they are in an empty fireplace, loss of property and death are signified.

_Anecdote_.
To dream of relating an anecdote, signifies that you will greatly prefer gay companionship to that of intellect, and that your affairs will prove as unstable as yourself.
For a young woman to hear anecdotes related, denotes that she will be one of a merry party of pleasure-seekers.

_Angels_.

To dream of angels is prophetic of disturbing influences in the soul. It brings a changed condition of the person's lot. If the dream
is unusually pleasing, you will hear of the health of friends,
and receive a legacy from unknown relatives.
If the dream comes as a token of warning, the dreamer may expect threats of scandal about love or money matters.
To wicked people, it is a demand to repent; to good people it should be a consolation.

_Anger_.
To dream of anger, denotes that some awful trial awaits you.
Disappointments in loved ones, and broken ties, of enemies










may make new attacks upon your property or character.

To dreams that friends or relatives are angry with you, while you meet their anger with composure, denotes you will mediate between opposing friends, and gain their lasting favor and gratitude.

_Angling_.

To dream of catching fish is good. If you fail to catch any, it will be bad for you.

_Annoy_.

This dream denotes that you have enemies who are at work against you. Annoyances experienced in dreams are apt to find speedy fulfilment in the trifling incidents of the following day.

_Antelope_.
Seeing antelopes in a dream, foretells your ambitions will be high, but may be realized by putting forth great energy.
For a young woman to see an antelope miss its footing and fall from a height, denotes the love she aspires to will prove her undoing.

_Ants_.

The dreamer of ants should expect many petty annoyances during the day; chasing little worries, and finding general dissatisfaction in all things.

_Anvil_.

To see hot iron with sparks flying, is significant of a pleasing work; to the farmer, an abundant crop; favorable indeed to women.
Cold, or small, favors may be expected from those in power.
The means of success is in your power, but in order to obtain it you will have to labor under difficulty. If the anvil is broken,
it foretells that you have, through your own neglect, thrown away promising opportunities that cannot be recalled.

_Anxiety_.










A dream of this kind is occasionally a good omen, denoting,
after threatening states, success and rejuvenation of mind;
but if the dreamer is anxious about some momentous affair,
it indicates a disastrous combination of business and social states.

_Apes_.

This dream brings humiliation and disease to some dear friend.

To see a small ape cling to a tree, warns the dreamer to beware; a false person is close to you and will cause unpleasantness in your circle.
Deceit goes with this dream.

_Apparel_.[16]

Dreams of apparel, denote that enterprises will be successes or failures,
as the apparel seems to be whole and clean, or soiled and threadbare.

To see fine apparel, but out of date, foretells that you will have fortune, but you will scorn progressive ideas.

If you reject out-of-date apparel, you will outgrow present environments and enter into new relations, new enterprises and new loves, which will transform you into a different person.

To see yourself or others appareled in white, denotes eventful changes, and you will nearly always find the change bearing sadness.
To walk with a person wearing white, proclaims that person's
illness or distress, unless it be a young woman or child,
then you will have pleasing surroundings for a season at least.
To see yourself, or others, dressed in black, portends quarrels,
disappointments, and disagreeable companions; or, if it refers
to business, the business will fall short of expectations.
To see yellow apparel, foretells approaching gaieties and financial progress. Seen as a flitting spectre, in an unnatural light, the reverse may
be expected. You will be fortunate if you dream of yellow cloth.
To dream of blue apparel, signifies carrying forward to victory your aspirations, through energetic, insistent efforts.










Friends will loyally support you.

To dream of crimson apparel, foretells that you will escape formidable enemies by a timely change in your expressed intention.

To see green apparel, is a hopeful sign of prosperity and happiness.

To see many colored apparel, foretells swift changes, and intermingling of good and bad influences in your future.
To dream of misfitting apparel, intimates crosses in your affections, and that you are likely to make a mistake in some enterprise.

To see old or young in appropriate apparel, denotes that you
will undertake some engagement for which you will have no liking, and which will give rise to many cares.

For a woman to dream that she is displeased with her apparel, foretells that she will find many vexatious rivalries in her quest for social distinction.

To admire the apparel of others, denotes that she will have jealous fears of her friends.

To dream of the loss of any article of apparel, denotes disturbances in your business and love affairs.
For a young woman to dream of being attired in a guazy black costume, foretells she will undergo chastening sorrow and disappointment.
For a young woman to dream that she meets another attired in a crimson dress with a crepe mourning veil over her face, foretells she will be outrivaled
by one she hardly considers her equal, and bitter disappointment will sour
her against women generally.
The dreamer interpreting the dream of apparel should be careful
to note whether the objects are looking natural. If the faces are
distorted and the light unearthly, though the colors are bright,
beware; the miscarriage of some worthy plan will work you harm.
There are few dreams in which the element of evil is wanting,
as there are few enterprises in waking life from which the element
of chance is obviated.





[16] See Clothes and Coat.
_Apparition_.
Take unusual care of all depending upon you. Calamity awaits you and yours. Both property and life are in danger. Young people should be
decidedly upright in their communications with the opposite sex.
Character is likely to be rated at a discount.

_Apples_.

This is a very good dream to the majority of people.

To see red apples on trees with green foliage is exceedingly propitious to the dreamer.

To eat them is not as good, unless they be faultless.
A friend who interprets dreams says: ``Ripe apples on a tree,
denotes that the time has arrived for you to realize your hopes;
think over what you intend to do, and go fearlessly ahead.
Ripe on the top of the tree, warns you not to aim too high.
Apples on the ground imply that false friends, and flatterers
are working you harm. Decayed apples typify hopeless efforts.''

_Apprentice_.

To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle to win a place among your companions

_Apricot_.

Dreams of seeing apricots growing, denote that the future, though seemingly rosy hued, holds masked bitterness and sorrow for you.
To eat them signifies the near approach of calamitous influences. If others eat them, your surroundings will be unpleasant
and disagreeable to your fancies. A friend says:
``Apricots denote that you have been wasting time over trifles or small things of no value.''

_April_.









To dream of the month of April, signifies that much pleasure and profit will be your allotment. If the weather is miserable, it is a sign of passing ill luck.

_Apron_.

To dream of an apron, signifies a zigzag course, for a young woman.
For a school girl to dream that her apron is loosened, or torn,
implies bad lessons, and lectures in propriety from parents and teachers.

_Arch_.

An arch in a dream, denotes your rise to distinction and the gaining of wealth by persistent effort. To pass under one, foretells that many will seek you
who formerly ignored your position.

For a young woman to see a fallen arch, denotes the destruction of her hopes, and she will be miserable in her new situation.

_Archbishop_.

To dream of seeing an archbishop, foretells you will have many obstacles to resist in your attempt to master fortune or rise to public honor.
To see one in the every day dress of a common citizen, denotes you
will have aid and encouragement from those in prominent positions
and will succeed in your enterprises.
For a young woman to dream that an archbishop is kindly directing her, foretells she will be fortunate in forming her friendships.

_Architect_.

Architects drawing plans in your dreams, denotes a change in your business, which will be likely to result in loss to you.
For a young woman to see an architect, foretells she will meet rebuffs in her aspirations and maneuvers to make a favorable marriage.

_Arm_.

To dream of seeing an arm amputated, means separation or divorce.










Mutual dissatisfaction will occur between husband and wife.
It is a dream of sinister import. Beware of deceitfulness and fraud.

_Aroma_.

For a young woman to dream of a sweet aroma, denotes she will soon be the recipient of some pleasure or present.

_Arrested_.[17]

To see respectable-looking strangers arrested, foretells that you desire to make changes, and new speculations will be subordinated by the fear of failure. If they resist the officers, you will have great delight
in pushing to completion the new enterprise.

[17] See Prisoner.

_Arrow_.
Pleasure follows this dream. Entertainments, festivals and pleasant journeys may be expected. Suffering will cease.
An old or broken arrow, portends disappointments in love or business. _Art Gallery_.

To visit an art gallery, portends unfortunate unions in domestic circles.
You will struggle to put forth an appearance of happiness, but will secretly care for other associations.

_Ascend_.

If you reach the extreme point of ascent, or top of steps, without stumbling, it is good; otherwise, you will have obstacles to overcome before the good of the day is found.

_Asceticism_.

To dream of asceticism, denotes that you will cultivate strange
principles and views, rendering yourself fascinating to strangers, but repulsive to friends.










_Ashes_.

Dreaming of ashes omens woe, and many bitter changes are
sure to come to the dreamer. Blasted crops to the farmer.
Unsuccessful deals for the trader. Parents will reap the sorrows of wayward children.

_Asia_.

To dream of visiting Asia is assurance of change, but no material benefits from fortune will follow.

_Asp_.

This is an unfortunate dream. Females may lose the respect of honorable and virtuous people. Deadly enemies are at work to defame character. Sweethearts will wrong each other.

_Asparagus_.
To dream of asparagus, signifies prosperous surroundings and obedience from servants and children. To eat it, denotes interrupted success.

_Ass_.[18]

To see an ass in a dream, you will meet many annoyances, and delays will accrue in receiving news or goods.
To see donkeys carrying burdens, denotes that, after patience and toil, you will succeed in your undertakings, whether of travel or love.
If an ass pursues you, and you are afraid of it, you will be the victim of scandal or other displeasing reports.
If you unwillingly ride on one, or, as jockey, unnecessary quarrels may follow.

[18] See Donkey.

_Assassin_.

If you are the one to receive the assassin's blow, you will not surmount










all your trials.

To see another, with the assassin standing over him with blood stains, portends that misfortune will come to the dreamer.
To see an assassin under any condition is a warning that losses may befall you through secret enemies.

_Assistance_.

Giving assistance to any one in a dream, foretells you will be favored in your efforts to rise to higher position.
If any one assists you, you will be pleasantly situated, and loving friends will be near you.

_Asylum_.

To dream of an asylum, denotes sickness and unlucky dealings, which cannot be overcome without great mental struggle.

_Astral_.
Dreams of the astral, denote that your efforts and plans will culminate in worldly success and distinction. A spectre or picture of your astral self brings heart-rending tribulation.

_Atlas_.

To dream you are looking at an atlas, denotes that you will carefully study interests before making changes or journeys.

_Atonement_.

Means joyous communing with friends, and speculators need not fear any drop
in stocks. Courting among the young will meet with happy consummation.
The sacrifice or atonement of another for your waywardness, is portentous
of the humiliation of self or friends through your open or secret disregard
of duty. A woman after this dream is warned of approaching disappointment.

_Attic_.








To dream that you are in an attic, denotes that you are entertaining hopes which will fail of materialization.
For a young woman to dream that she is sleeping in an attic, foretells that she will fail to find *******ment in her present occupation.

_Attorney_.

To see an attorney at the bar, denotes that disputes of a serious
nature will arise between parties interested in worldly things.
Enemies are stealing upon you with false claims. If you see an attorney defending you, your friends will assist you in coming trouble,
but they will cause you more worry than enemies.

_Auction_.

To dream of an auction in a general way, is good.
If you hear the auctioneer crying his sales, it means bright prospects and fair treatment from business ventures.

To dream of buying at an auction, signifies close deals to tradesmen, and good luck in live stock to the farmer. Plenty, to the housewife
is the omen for women. If there is a feeling of regret about the dream, you are warned to be careful of your business affairs.

_August_.

To dream of the month of August, denotes unfortunate deals, and misunderstandings in love affairs.
For a young woman to dream that she is going to be married in August, is an omen of sorrow in her early wedded life.

_Augur_.
To see augurs in your dreams, is a forecast of labor and toil.
_Aunt_.
For a young woman to dream of seeing her aunt, denotes she will receive sharp censure for some action, which will cause her much distress.








If this relative appears smiling and happy, slight difference will soon give way to pleasure.

_Aura_.

To dream of discussing any subject relating to aura, denotes that you will reach states of mental unrest, and work to discover the power which influences you from within.

_Autumn_.

For a woman to dream of Autumn, denotes she will obtain property
through the struggles of others. If she thinks of marrying in Autumn, she will be likely to contract a favorable marriage and possess
a cheerful home.

_Automobile_.
To dream that you ride in an automobile, denotes that you will be restless
under pleasant conditions, and will make a change in your affairs.
There is grave danger of impolitic conduct intimated through a dream
of this nature.
If one breaks down with you, the enjoyment of a pleasure will not extend to the heights you contemplate.
To find yourself escaping from the path of one, signifies that you
will do well to avoid some rival as much as you can honestly allow.
For a young woman to look for one, she will be disappointed in her aims to entice some one into her favor.

_Author_.

For an author to dream that his manuscript has been rejected by the publisher, denotes some doubt at first, but finally
his work will be accepted as authentic and original.

To dream of seeing an author over his work, perusing it with anxiety, denotes that you will be worried over some literary work either of your own or that of some other person.










_Awake_.

To dream that you are awake, denotes that you will experience strange happenings which will throw you into gloom.
To pass through green, growing fields, and look upon landscape,
in your dreams, and feel that it is an awaking experience,
signifies that there is some good and brightness in store for you,
but there will be disappointments intermingled between the present
and that time.

_Axe_.

Seeing an axe in a dream, foretells that what enjoyment
you may have will depend on your struggles and energy.
To see others using an axe, foretells, your friends will be
energetic and lively, making existence a pleasure when near them.

For a young woman to see one, portends her lover will be worthy, but not possessed with much wealth. A broken or rusty axe,
indicates illness and loss of money and property.

.

[Rouch]

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 *******ment. 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 *******ed, 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 dis******* and sorrow.

_Baste_.

To dream of basting meats while ×××××ng, 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 *******ment. 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 dis******* 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 dis******* 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 ×××××d 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 *******ions 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 ××××l_.
To dream of bomb ××××ls, 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 *******ions 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 ****ls, 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 ××××××××s.

_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.

[Rouch]

C.

``_And the Angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob; and I said, here am I_.''--Gen. xxx., II.










_Cab_.

To ride in a cab in dreams, is significant of pleasant avocations, and average prosperity you will enjoy.
To ride in a cab at night, with others, indicates that you will have a secret that you will endeavor to keep from your friends.
To ride in a cab with a woman, scandal will couple your name with others of bad repute.
To dream of driving a public cab, denotes manual labor, with little chance of advancement.

_Cabbage_.
It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms. To dream of seeing cabbage green, means unfaithfulness in love and infidelity in wedlock.
To cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords of calamity around you by lavish expenditure.

_Cable_.

To dream of a cable, foretells the undertaking of a decidedly hazardous work, which, if successfully carried to completion, will abound in riches and honor to you.
To dream of receiving cablegrams, denotes that a message of importance will reach you soon, and will cause disagreeable comments.

_Cabin_.

The cabin of a ship is rather unfortunate to be in in{sic} a dream.
Some mischief is brewing for you. You will most likely be engaged in a
law suit, in which you will lose from the unstability of your witness.

For log cabin, see house.

_Cackle_.








To hear the cackling of hens denotes a sudden shock produced by the news of an unexpected death in your neighborhood, Sickness will cause poverty.

_Cage_.

In your dreaming if you see a cageful of birds, you will be the happy
possessor of immense wealth and many beautiful and charming children.
To see only one bird, you will contract a desirable and wealthy marriage.
No bird indicates a member of the family lost, either by elopement or death.

To see wild animals caged, denotes that you will triumph over
your enemies and misfortunes. If you are in the cage with them, it denotes harrowing scenes from accidents while traveling.

_Cakes_.

Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be bequeathed to him or her.
To dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable opportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper.
Pound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business.
For a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake
in the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them
or eating them.

_Calomel_.

To dream of calomel shows some person is seeking to deceive
and injure you through the unconscious abetting of friends.
For a young woman to dream of taking it, foretells that she will be victimized through the artful designing of persons whom she trusts. If it is applied externally, she will close her eyes to deceit
in order to enjoy a short season of pleasure.

_Calves_.[30]

To dream of calves peacefully grazing on a velvety lawn,
foretells to the young, happy, festive gatherings and enjoyment.
Those engaged in seeking wealth will see it rapidly increasing.





[30] See Cattle.
_Called_.

To hear your name called in a dream by strange voices,
denotes that your business will fall into a precarious state, and that strangers may lend you assistance, or you may fail to meet your obligations.

To hear the voice of a friend or relative, denotes the desperate
illness of some one of them, and may be death; in the latter
case you may be called upon to stand as guardian over some one, in governing whom you should use much discretion.
Lovers hearing the voice of their affianced should heed the warning.
If they have been negligent in attention they should make amends.
Otherwise they may suffer separation from misunderstanding.

To hear the voice of the dead may be a warning of your own serious
illness or some business worry from bad judgment may ensue.
The voice is an echo thrown back from the future on the subjective mind,
taking the sound of your ancestor's voice from coming in contact
with that part of your ancestor which remains with you.
A certain portion of mind matter remains the same in lines
of family descent.

_Calendar_.

To dream of keeping a calendar, indicates that you will be very orderly and systematic in habits throughout the year.
To see a calendar, denotes disappointment in your calculations.
_Calm_.

To see calm seas, denotes successful ending of doubtful undertaking.

To feel calm and happy, is a sign of a long and well-spent life and a vigorous old age.










_Calumny_.

To dream that you are the subject of calumny, denotes that your interests will suffer at the hands of evil-minded gossips.
For a young woman, it warns her to be careful of her conduct, as her movements are being critically observed by persons
who claim to be her friends.

_Camera_.

To dream of a camera, signifies that changes will bring
undeserved environments. For a young woman to dream that she is taking pictures with a camera, foretells that her immediate
future will have much that is displeasing and that a friend
will subject her to acute disappointment.

_Cameo Brooch_.

To dream of a cameo brooch, denotes some sad occurrence will soon claim your attention.

_Camels_.
To see this beast of burden, signifies that you will entertain great patience and fortitude in time of almost unbearable
anguish and failures that will seemingly sweep every vestige of hope from you.

To own a camel, is a sign that you will possess rich mining property.

To see a herd of camels on the desert, denotes assistance when all human aid seems at a low ebb, and of sickness from which you will arise,
contrary to all expectations.

_Camp_.

To dream of camping in the open air, you may expect a change in your affairs, also prepare to make a long and wearisome journey.

To see a camping settlement, many of your companions will remove to new estates and your own prospects will appear gloomy.








For a young woman to dream that she is in a camp, denotes that
her lover will have trouble in getting her to name a day
for their wedding, and that he will prove a kind husband.
If in a military camp she will marry the first time she
has a chance.
A married woman after dreaming of being in a soldier's camp is in danger of having her husband's name sullied, and divorce courts may be her destination.

_Campaign_.

To dream of making a political one, signifies your opposition to
approved ways of conducting business, and you will set up original plans for yourself regardless of enemies' working against you.
Those in power will lose.

If it is a religious people conducting a campaign against sin,
it denotes that you will be called upon to contribute from your private means to sustain charitable institutions.

For a woman to dream that she is interested in a campaign against fallen women, denotes that she will surmount obstacles and prove courageous in time of need.

_Cane_.

To see cane growing in your dream, foretells favorable advancement will be made toward fortune. To see it cut, denotes absolute failure in all undertakings.

_Cancer_.

To have one successfully treated in a dream, denotes a sudden rise from obscure poverty to wealthy surroundings.
To dream of a cancer, denotes illness of some one near you, and quarrels with those you love. Depressions may follow to the man of affairs after this dream.
To dream of a cancer, foretells sorrow in its ugliest phase.
Love will resolve itself into cold formality, and business




will be worrying and profitless.
_Canal_.
To see the water of a canal muddy and stagnant-looking, portends
sickness and disorders of the stomach and dark designs of enemies.
But if its waters are clear a placid life and the devotion of friends
is before you.
For a young woman to glide in a canoe across a canal, denotes a chaste life and an adoring husband. If she crossed the canal on a bridge over clear water and gathers ferns and other greens on the banks, she will enjoy a life of ceaseless rounds of pleasure and attain to high social distinction.
But if the water be turbid she will often find herself tangled in meshes
of perplexity and will be the victim of nervous troubles.

_Canary Birds_. To dream of this sweet songster, denotes
unexpected pleasures. For the young to dream of possessing a beautiful canary, denotes high class honors and a successful passage through the literary world, or a happy termination
of love's young dream.

To dream one is given you, indicates a welcome legacy.
To give away a canary, denotes that you will suffer disappointment in your dearest wishes.

To dream that one dies, denotes the unfaithfulness of dear friends.

Advancing, fluttering, and singing canaries, in luxurious apartments, denotes feasting and a life of exquisite refinement,
wealth, and satisfying friendships. If the light is weird
or unnaturally bright, it augurs that you are entertaining
illusive hopes. Your over-confidence is your worst enemy.
A young woman after this dream should beware, lest flattering
promises react upon her in disappointment. Fairy-like scenes
in a dream are peculiarly misleading and treacherous to women.

_Candles_.

To see them burning with a clear and steady flame, denotes the constancy of those about you and a well-grounded fortune.








For a maiden to dream that she is molding candles, denotes that she will have an unexpected offer of marriage and a pleasant visit to distant relatives.
If she is lighting a candle, she will meet her lover clandestinely because
of parental objections.
To see a candle wasting in a draught, enemies are circulating detrimental reports about you.
To snuff a candle, portends sorowful{sic} news. Friends are dead or in distressful straits.

_Candlestick_.

To see a candlestick bearing a whole candle, denotes that a bright future lies before you filled with health, happiness and loving companions.
If empty, the reverse.

_Canker_.[31]
To dream of seeing canker on anything, is an omen of evil. It foretells death and treacherous companions for the young. Sorrow and loneliness to the aged.
Cankerous growths in the flesh, denote future distinctions either as head of State or stage life.

[31] The last definition is not consistent with other parts of this book, but I let it stand, as I find it among my automatic writings.


_Cannon_.

This dream denotes that one's home and country are in danger of foreign intrusion, from which our youth will suffer from
the perils of war.
For a young woman to hear or see cannons, denotes she will be a soldier's wife
and will have to bid him godspeed as he marches in defense of her and honor.

The reader will have to interpret dreams of this character
by the influences surrounding him, and by the experiences stored










away in his subjective mind. If you have thought about cannons
a great deal and you dream of them when there is no war, they are most likely to warn you against struggle and probable defeat.
Or if business is manipulated by yourself successful engagements after much worry and ill luck may ensue.

_Cannon-Ball_.

This means that secret enemies are uniting against you. For a maid to see a cannon-ball, denotes that she will have a soldier sweetheart. For a youth to see a cannon-ball, denotes that he will be called upon to defend his country.

_Canoe_.

To paddle a canoe on a calm stream, denotes your perfect confidence in your own ability to conduct your business in a profitable way.

To row with a sweetheart, means an early marriage and fidelity.
To row on rough waters you will have to tame a shrew before you
attain connubial bliss. Affairs in the business world will
prove disappointing after you dream of rowing in muddy waters.
If the waters are shallow and swift, a hasty courtship or stolen pleasures, from which there can be no lasting good, are indicated.
Shallow, clear and calm waters in rowing, signifies happiness of a pleasing character, but of short duration.

Water is typical of futurity in the dream realms. If a pleasant immediate
future awaits the dreamer he will come in close proximity with clear water. Or if he emerges from disturbed watery elements into waking life the near future is filled with crosses for him.

_Candy_.

To dream of making candy, denotes profit accruing from industry.

To dream of eating crisp, new candy, implies social
pleasures and much love-making among the young and old. Sour candy is a sign of illness or that disgusting annoyances will grow out of confidences too long kept.










To receive a box of bonbons, signifies to a young person
that he or she will be the recipient of much adulation.
It generally means prosperity. If you send a box you will make a proposition, but will meet with disappointment.

_Canopy_.

To dream of a canopy or of being beneath one, denotes that false friends are influencing you to undesirable ways of securing gain. You will do well to protect those in your care.

_Cap_.

For a woman to dream of seeing a cap, she will be invited to take part in some festivity.
For a girl to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a cap on, denotes that she will be bashful and shy in his presence.
To see a prisoner's cap, denotes that your courage is failing you in time of danger.
To see a miner's cap, you will inherit a substantial competency. _Captive_.
To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery to deal with, and if you cannot escape, that injury and misfortune
will befall you.
To dream of taking any one captive, you will join yourself to pursuits and persons of lowest status.
For a young woman to dream that she is a captive, denotes that she will have a husband who will be jealous of her confidence in others; or she may be censured for her indiscretion.

_Captain_.

To dream of seeing a captain of any company, denotes your noblest aspirations will be realized. If a woman dreams that her lover is a captain, she will
be much harassed in mind from jealousy and rivalry.











_Cars_.

To dream of seeing cars, denotes journeying and changing in quick succession. To get on one shows that travel which you held in contemplation will be made under different auspices than had been calculated upon.
To miss one, foretells that you will be foiled in an attempt to forward your prospects.
To get off of one, denotes that you will succeed with some interesting schemes which will fill you with self congratulations.
To dream of sleeping-cars, indicates that your struggles to amass wealth is animated by the desire of gratifying selfish and lewd principles which should be mastered and controlled.

To see street-cars in your dreams, denotes that some person is actively interested in causing you malicious trouble and disquiet.
To ride on a car, foretells that rivalry and jealousy will enthrall your happiness.
To stand on the platform of a street-car while it is running, denotes you will attempt to carry on an affair which will be extremely dangerous, but if you ride without accident you will be successful.
If the platform is up high, your danger will be more apparent, but if low, you will barely accomplish your purpose.

_Cardinal_.

It is unlucky to dream you see a cardinal in his robes.
You will meet such misfortunes as will necessitate your removal to distant or foreign lands to begin anew your ruined fortune. For a woman to dream this is a sign of her downfall through
false promises. If priest or preacher is a spiritual adviser
and his services are supposed to be needed, especially in
the hour of temptation, then we find ourselves dreaming of him as a warning against approaching evil.

_Cards_.









If playing them in your dreams with others for social pastime, you will meet with fair realization of hopes that have long buoyed you up.
Small ills will vanish. But playing for stakes will involve you
in difficulties of a serious nature.

If you lose at cards you will encounter enemies.
If you win you will justify yourself in the eyes of the law, but will have trouble in so doing.
If a young woman dreams that her sweetheart is playing at cards, she will have cause to question his good intentions.

In social games, seeing diamonds indicate wealth; clubs, that your partner
in life will be exacting, and that you may have trouble in explaining
your absence at times; hearts denote fidelity and cosy surroundings;
spades signify that you will be a widow and encumbered with a large estate.

_Carnival_.

To dream that you are participating in a carnival, portends that you are soon
to enjoy some unusual pleasure or recreation. A carnival when masks are used, or when incongruous or clownish figures are seen, implies discord in the home; business will be unsatisfactory and love unrequited.

_Cart_.

To dream of riding in a cart, ill luck and constant work will employ your time if you would keep supplies for your family.

To see a cart, denotes bad news from kindred or friends.

To dream of driving a cart, you will meet with merited success in business and other aspirations.
For lovers to ride together in a cart, they will be true in spite of the machinations of rivals.

_Cartridge_.

To dream of cartridges, foretells unhappy quarrels and dissensions.




Some untoward fate threatens you or some one closely allied to you.
If they are empty, there will be foolish variances in your associations.
_Carving_.
To dream of carving a fowl, indicates you will be poorly off in a worldly way. Companions will cause you vexation from continued ill temper.
Carving meat, denotes bad investments, but, if a change is made, prospects will be brighter.

_Carpet_.

To see a carpet in a dream, denotes profit, and wealthy friends to aid you in need.

To walk on a carpet, you will be prosperous and happy.

To dream that you buy carpets, denotes great gain.
If selling them, you will have cause to go on a pleasant journey, as well as a profitable one.

For a young woman to dream of carpets, shows she will own a beautiful home and servants will wait upon her.

_Carpenter_.

To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest endeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime or so-called recreation.

_Carriage_.

To see a carriage, implies that you will be gratified, and that you will make visits.
To ride in one, you will have a sickness that will soon pass,
and you will enjoy health and advantageous positions.

To dream that you are looking for a carriage, you will have to labor hard,




but will eventually be possessed with a fair competency. _Carrot_.

To dream of carrots, portends prosperity and health For a young
woman to eat them, denotes that she will contract an early marriage and be the mother of several hardy children.

_Cask_.

To see one filled, denotes prosperous times and feastings. If empty, your life will be void of any joy or consolation from outward influences.

_Cash_.[32]

To dream that you have plenty of cash, but that it has been borrowed,
portends that you will be looked upon as a worthy man, but that those who come in close contact with you will find that you are mercenary and unfeeling.

For a young woman to dream that she is spending borrowed money, foretells that she will be found out in her practice of deceit,
and through this lose a prized friend.


[32] See Money.

_Cash Box_.

To dream of a full cash box, denotes that favorable prospects will open
around you. If empty, you will experience meager reimbursements.

_Cashier_.

To see a cashier in your dream, denotes that others will claim your possessions. If you owe any one, you will practice deceit in your designs upon some wealthy person.

_Castle_.
To dream of being in a castle, you will be possessed of sufficient wealth
to make life as you wish. You have prospects of being a great traveler,










enjoying contact with people of many nations.

To see an old and vine-covered castle, you are likely to become romantic in your tastes, and care should be taken that you
do not contract an undesirable marriage or engagement.
Business is depressed after this dream.

To dream that you are leaving a castle, you will be robbed of
your possessions, or lose your lover or some dear one by death.

_Castor Oil_.

To dream of castor oil, denotes that you will seek to overthrow a friend who is secretly abetting your advancement.

_Castoria_.

To dream of castoria, denotes that you will fail to discharge some important duty, and your fortune will seemingly decline to low stages.

_Cats_.

To dream of a cat, denotes ill luck, if you do not succeed
in killing it or driving it from your sight. If the cat
attacks you, you will have enemies who will go to any extreme to blacken your reputation and to cause you loss of property. But if you succeed in banishing it, you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame.
If you meet a thin, mean and dirty-looking cat, you will have bad news from the absent. Some friend lies at death's door; but if you chase it out of sight, your friend will recover
after a long and lingering sickness.
To hear the scream or the mewing of a cat, some false friend is using all the words and work at his command to do you harm.
To dream that a cat scratches you, an enemy will succeed in wrenching
from you the profits of a deal that you have spent many days making.

If a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be










influenced into some impropriety through the treachery of others.

To dream of a clean white cat, denotes entanglements which, while seemingly harmless, will prove a source of sorrow and loss of wealth.
When a merchant dreams of a cat, he should put his best energies to work, as his competitors are about to succeed in demolishing his standard
of dealing, and he will be forced to other measures if he undersells
others and still succeeds.
To dream of seeing a cat and snake on friendly terms signifies
the beginning of an angry struggle. It denotes that an enemy
is being entertained by you with the intention of using him
to find out some secret which you believe concerns yourself;
uneasy of his confidences given, you will endeavor to disclaim all
knowledge of his actions, as you are fearful that things divulged,
concerning your private life, may become public.

_Catechism_.

To dream of the catechism, foretells that you will be offered a lucrative position, but the strictures will be such that you will be worried as to accepting it.

_Caterpillar_.

To see a caterpillar in a dream, denotes that low
and hypocritical people are in your immediate future,
and you will do well to keep clear of deceitful appearances. You may suffer a loss in love or business.

To dream of a caterpillar, foretells you will be placed in
embarrassing situations, and there will be small honor or gain to be expected.

_Cattle_.[33]

To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle *******edly grazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity and happiness through a congenial and pleasant companion.








To see cattle lean and shaggy, and poorly fed, you will be likely to toil all your life because of misspent energy and dislike of details of work. Correct your habits after this dream.
To see cattle stampeding, means that you will have to exert all the powers of command you have to keep your career in a profitable channel.

To see a herd of cows at milking time, you will be the
successful owner of wealth that many have worked to obtain.
To a young woman this means that her affections will not suffer from the one of her choice.
To dream of milking cows with udders well filled, great good fortune is in store for you. If the calf has stolen the milk, it signifies that
you are about to lose your lover by slowness to show your reciprocity, or your property from neglect of business.

To see young calves in your dream, you will become a great
favorite in society and win the heart of a loyal person.
For business, this dream indicates profit from sales.
For a lover, the entering into bonds that will be respected.
If the calves are poor, look for about the same, except that
the object sought will be much harder to obtain.
Long-horned and dark, vicious cattle, denote enemies. [33] See Calves.

_Cathedral_.

To dream of a wast cathedral with its domes rising into space,
denotes that you will be possessed with an envious nature and
unhappy longings for the unattainable, both mental and physical; but if you enter you will be elevated in life, having for your
companions the learned and wise.

_Cauliflower_.

To dream of eating it, you will be taken to task for neglect of duty.
To see it growing, your prospects will brighten after a period of loss.

For a young woman to see this vegetable in a garden, denotes that she




will marry to please her parents and not herself. _Cavalry_.
To dream that you see a division of cavalry, denotes personal advancement and distinction. Some little sensation may accompany your elevation.

_Cavern or Cave_.

To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you, many perplexities will assail you, and doubtful advancement because of adversaries. Work and health is threatened.
To be in a cave foreshadows change. You will probably be estranged from those who are very dear to you.
For a young woman to walk in a cave with her lover or friend, denotes she will fall in love with a villain and will suffer
the loss of true friends.

_Cedars_.

To dream of seeing them green and shapely, denotes pleasing success in an undertaking.
To see them dead or blighted, signifies despair.
No object will be attained from seeing them thus.

_Celestial Signs_.[34]

To dream of celestial signs, foretells unhappy occurrences will cause you to make unseasonable journeys. Love or business may go awry, quarrels in the house are also predicted if you are not discreet
with your engagements.
[34] See Illumination.
_Celery_.
To dream of seeing fresh, crisp stalks of celery, you will be prosperous and influential beyond your highest hopes.











To see it decaying, a death in your family will soon occur.

To eat it, boundless love and affection will be heaped upon you.

For a young woman to eat it with her lover, denotes she will come into rich possessions.

_Cellar_.

To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts. You will lose confidence in all things and suffer gloomy forebodings
from which you will fail to escape unless you control your will.
It also indicates loss of property.

To see a cellar stored with wines and table stores, you will
be offered a share in profits coming from a doubtful source.
If a young woman dreams of this she will have an offer of marriage from a speculator or gambler.

_Cemetery_.

To dream of being in a beautiful and well-kept cemetery, you will have
unexpected news of the recovery of one whom you had mourned as dead, and you will have your title good to lands occupied by usurpers.
To see an old bramble grown and forgotten cemetery, you will live to see
all your loved ones leave you, and you will be left to a stranger's care.
For young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead foreshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends,
but will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert.
Brides dreaming of passing a cemetery on their way to the wedding ceremony, will be bereft of their husbands by fatal accidents occurring on journeys.
For a mother to carry fresh flowers to a cemetery, indicates she may expect the continued good health of her family.
For a young widow to visit a cemetery means she will soon throw aside her weeds for robes of matrimony. If she feels sad and depressed she will have new cares and regrets.









Old people dreaming of a cemetery, shows they will soon make other journeys where they will find perfect rest.

To see little children gathering flowers and chasing butterflies among
the graves, denotes prosperous changes and no graves of any of your friends to weep over. Good health will hold high carnival.

_Chaff_.

To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health causing much anxiety.

Women dreaming of piles of chaff, portends many hours spent in useless and degrading gossip, bringing them into notoriety and causing them to lose husbands who would have maintained them without work on their part.

_Chains_.

To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens are about to be thrown upon your shoulders; but if you succeed in breaking them you will free yourself from some unpleasant business or social engagement.
To see chains, brings calumny and treacherous designs of the envious.
Seeing others in chains, denotes bad fortunes for them.
_Chair_.
To see a chair in your dream, denotes failure to meet some obligation.
If you are not careful you will also vacate your most profitable places.
To see a friend sitting on a chair and remaining motionless, signifies news of his death or illness.

_Chair Maker_.

To dream of seeing a chair maker, denotes that worry from apparently pleasant labor will confront you.










_Chairman_.

To dream that you see the chairman of any public body, foretells you will
seek elevation and be recompensed by receiving a high position of trust.
To see one looking out of humor you are threatened with unsatisfactory states.

If you are a chairman, you will be distinguished for your justice and kindness to others.

_Chalk_.

For a woman to dream of chalking her face, denotes that she will scheme to obtain admirers.
To dream of using chalk on a board, you will attain public honors, unless it is the blackboard; then it indicates ill luck.
To hold hands full of chalk, disappointment is foretold. _Chalice_.
To dream of a chalice, denotes pleasure will be gained by you to the sorrow of others. To break one foretells your failure to obtain power over some friend.

_Challenge_.

If you are challenged to fight a duel, you will become involved in a social difficulty wherein you will be compelled to make apologies or else lose friendships.
To accept a challenge of any character, denotes that you will bear many ills yourself in your endeavor to shield others from dishonor.

_Chamber_.

To find yourself in a beautiful and richly furnished chamber implies sudden fortune, either through legacies from unknown relatives or through speculation. For a young woman, it denotes that a
wealthy stranger will offer her marriage and a fine establishment. If the chamber is plainly furnished, it denotes that a small
competency and frugality will be her portion.











_Chambermaid_.

To see a chambermaid, denotes bad fortune and decided changes will be made.
For a man to dream of making love to a chambermaid, shows he is likely to find himself an object of derision on account of indiscreet conduct
and want of tact.

_Chameleon_.

To dream of seeing your swetheart{sic} wearing a chameleon chained to her, shows she will prove faithless to you if by changing she can better
her fortune. Ordinarily chameleons signify deceit and self advancement, even though others suffer.

_Champion_.
To dream of a champion, denotes you will win the warmest friendship of some person by your dignity and moral conduct.

_Chandelier_.

To dream of a chandelier, portends that unhoped-for success will make it possible for you to enjoy pleasure and luxury at your caprice.

To see a broken or ill-kept one, denotes that unfortunate
speculation will depress your seemingly substantial fortune. To see the light in one go out, foretells that sickness and distress will cloud a promising future.

_Chapel_.

To dream of a chapel, denotes dissension in social circles and unsettled business.

To be in a chapel, denotes disappointment and change of business.

For young people to dream of entering a chapel, implies false loves and enemies. Unlucky unions may entangle them.










_Charity_.

To dream of giving charity, denotes that you will be harassed with supplications for help from the poor and your business will be at standstill.
To dream of giving to charitable institutions, your right of possession to paving property will be disputed.
Worries and ill health will threaten you.

For young persons to dream of giving charity, foreshows they will be
annoyed by deceitful rivals. To dream that you are an object of charity,
omens that you will succeed in life after hard times with misfortunes.

_Charcoal_.

To dream of charcoal unlighted, denotes miserable situations
and bleak unhappiness. If it is burning with glowing coals,
there is prospects of great enhancement of fortune, and possession of unalloyed joys.

_Chariot_.
To dream of riding in a chariot, foretells that favorable opportunities
will present themselves resulting in your good if rightly used by you.
To fall or see others fall from one, denotes displacement from high positions.

_Chastise_.

To dream of being chastised, denotes that you have not been prudent in conducting your affairs.
To dream that you administer chastisement to another, signifies that you will have an ill-tempered partner either in business or marriage.
For parents to dream of chastising their children, indicates they will be loose in their manner of correcting them, but they will succeed in bringing them up honorably.

_Cheated_.









To dream of being cheated in business, you will meet designing people who will seek to close your avenues to fortune.
For young persons to dream that they are being cheated in games, portend they will lose their sweethearts through quarrels and misunderstandings.

_Checks_.

To dream of palming off false checks on your friends, denotes that you will resort to subterfuge in order to carry forward your plans.
To receive checks you will be able to meet your payments and will inherit money.
To dream that you pay out checks, denotes depression and loss in business. _Checkers_.
To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties of a serious character, and strange people will come into your life, working you harm.
To dream that you win the game, you will succeed in some doubtful enterprise. _Cheese_.

To dream of eating cheese, denotes great disappointments and sorrow.
No good of any nature can be hoped for. Cheese is generally a bad dream.

_Chemise_.

For a woman to dream of a chemise, denotes she will hear unfavorable gossip about herself.

_Cherries_.

To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability
and unselfishness. To eat them, portends possession of some much
desired object. To see green ones, indicates approaching good fortune.

_Cherubs_.









To dream you see cherubs, foretells you will have some distinct joy, which will leave an impression of lasting good upon your life.
To see them looking sorrowful or reproachful, foretells that distress will come unexpectedly upon you.

_Chess_.

To dream of playing chess, denotes stagnation of business, dull companions, and poor health.
To dream that you lose at chess, worries from mean sources will ensue; but if you win, disagreeable influences may be surmounted.

_Chestnuts_.

To dream of handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way, but indicates an agreeable companion through life.

Eating them, denotes sorrow for a time, but final happiness.

For a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them, she will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty.

_Chickens_.

To dream of seeing a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares, some of which of which will prove to your profit.

Young or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises,
but to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength.

To see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil.

To eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise good name. Business and love will remain in precarious states.

_Chiffonier_.
To see or search through a chiffonier, denotes you will
have disappointing anticipations. To see one in order,




indicates pleasant friends and entertainments. _Chilblain_.
To dream of suffering with chilblains, denotes that you will be driven into some bad dealing through over anxity{sic} of a friend or partner. This dream also portends your own illness or an accident.

_Childbed_.

To dream of giving child birth, denotes fortunate circumstances and safe delivery of a handsome child.
For an unmarried woman to dream of being in childbed, denotes unhappy changes from honor to evil and low estates.

_Children_.
``Dream of children sweet and fair,
To you will come suave debonair,
Fortune robed in shining dress,
Bearing wealth and happiness.''

To dream of seeing many beautiful children is portentous of great prosperity and blessings.
For a mother to dream of seeing her child sick from slight cause, she may see it enjoying robust health, but trifles of another nature may harass her.
To see children working or studying, denotes peaceful times and general prosperity.
To dream of seeing your child desperately ill or dead, you have much to fear, for its welfare is sadly threatened.
To dream of your dead child, denotes worry and disappointment in the near future.

To dream of seeing disappointed children, denotes trouble from enemies,
and anxious forebodings from underhanded work of seemingly friendly people.









To romp and play with children, denotes that all your speculating and love enterprises will prevail.

_Chimes_.

To dream of Christmas chimes, denotes fair prospects for business men and farmers.
For the young, happy anticipations fulfilled. Ordinary chimes, denotes some small anxiety will soon be displaced by news of distant friends.

_Chimney_.

To dream of seeing chimneys, denotes a very displeasing incident will occur in your life. Hasty intelligence of sickness will be borne you.
A tumble down chimney, denotes sorrow and likely death in your family. To see one overgrown with ivy or other vines, foretells that happiness will result from sorrow or loss of relatives.

To see a fire burning in a chimney, denotes much good is approaching you. To hide in a chimney corner, denotes distress and doubt will assail you. Business will appear gloomy.

For a young woman to dream that she is going down a chimney,
foretells she will be guilty of some impropriety which will
cause consternation among her associates. To ascend a chimney,
shows that she will escape trouble which will be planned for her.

_China_.

For a woman to dream of painting or arranging her china, foretells she
will have a pleasant home and be a thrifty and economical matron.

_China Store_.[35]

For a china merchant to dream that his store looks empty, foretells he will have reverses in his business, and withal a gloomy period will follow.




[35] See Crockery.
_Chocolate_.

To dream of chocolate, denotes you will provide abundantly
for those who are dependent on you. To see chocolate candy, indicates agreeable companions and employments.
If sour, illness or other disappointments will follow.
To drink chocolate, foretells you will prosper after a short
period of unfavorable reverses.

_Choir_.

To dream of a choir, foretells you may expect cheerful surroundings
to replace gloom and dis*******. For a young woman to sing in a choir,
denotes she will be miserable over the attention paid others by her lover.

_Cholera_.
To dream of this dread disease devastating the country, portends sickness of virulent type will rage and many disappointments will follow.
To dream that you are attacked by it, denotes your own sickness. _Christ_.

To dream of beholding Christ, the young child, worshiped by the
wise men, denotes many peaceful days, full of wealth and knowledge, abundant with joy, and *******.
If in the garden of the Gethsemane, sorrowing adversity will fill your soul, great longings for change and absent objects of love will be felt.
To see him in the temple scourging the traders, denotes that evil enemies will be defeated and honest endeavors will prevail.

_Christmas Tree_.

To dream of a Christmas tree, denotes joyful occasions and auspicious fortune. To see one dismantled, foretells some painful incident will follow occasions of festivity.










_Chrysanthemum_.

To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss
and much perplexity; colored ones, betokens pleasant engagements.

To see them in bouquets, denotes that love will be offered you,
but a foolish ambition will cause you to put it aside. To pass down
an avenue of white chrysanthemums, with here and there a yellow one
showing among the white, foretells a strange sense of loss and sadness,
from which the sensibilities will expand and take on new powers.
While looking on these white flowers as you pass, and you suddenly feel
your spirit leave your body and a voice shouts aloud ``Glory to God,
my Creator,'' foretells that a crisis is pending in your near future.
If some of your friends pass out, and others take up true ideas in connection with spiritual and earthly needs, you will enjoy life in its deepest meaning. Often death is near you in these dreams.

_Church_.[36]
To dream of seeing a church in the distance, denotes disappointment in pleasures long anticipated.
To enter one wrapt in gloom, you will participate in a funeral. Dull prospects of better times are portended.

_Churchyard_.

To dream of walking in a churchyard, if in winter, denotes that you are
to have a long and bitter struggle with poverty, and you will reside far
from the home of your childhood, and friends will be separated from you; but if you see the signs of springtime, you will walk up in into pleasant places and enjoy the society of friends.
For lovers to dream of being in a churchyard means they will never marry each other, but will see others fill their places.

_Churning_.

To dream of churning, you will have difficult tasks set you, but by
diligence and industry you will accomplish them and be very prosperous.
To the farmer, it denotes profit from a plenteous harvest; to a young woman, it denotes a thrifty and energetic husband.











_Cider_.

To dream of cider, denotes fortune may be won by you if your time
is not squandered upon material pleasure. To see people drinking it, you will be under the influence of unfaithful friends.

_Cipher_.

To dream of reading cipher, indicates that you are interested
in literary researches, and by constant study you will become
well acquainted with the habits and lives of the ancients.

_Circle_.

To dream of a circle, denotes that your affairs will deceive you
in their proportions of gain. For a young woman to dream of a circle,
warns her of indiscreet involvement to the exclusion of marriage.

_Cistern_. To dream of a cistern, denotes you are in danger
of trespassing upon the pleasures and rights of your friends.
To draw from one, foretells that you will enlarge in your pastime
and enjoyment in a manner which may be questioned by propriety.
To see an empty one, foretells despairing change from happiness to sorrow.
_City_.
To dream that you are in a strange city, denotes you will have sorrowful occasion to change your abode or mode of living.

_City Council_.

To dream of a city council, foretells that your interests will clash with public institutions and there will be discouraging outlooks for you.

_City Hall_.

To dream of a city hall, denotes *******ions and threatened law suits.

To a young woman this dream is a foreboding of unhappy estrangement




from her lover by her failure to keep virtue inviolate. _Clams_.
To dream of clams, denotes you will have dealings with an obstinate but
honest person. To eat them, foretells you will enjoy another's prosperity.
For a young woman to dream of eating baked clams with her sweetheart, foretells that she will enjoy his money as well as his confidence.

_Clay_.

To dream of clay, denotes isolation of interest and probable insolvency. To dig in a clay bank, foretells you will submit to extraordinary
demands of enemies. If you dig in an ash bank and find clay,
unfortunate surprises will combat progressive enterprises or new work. Your efforts are likely to be misdirected after this dream.

Women will find this dream unfavorable in love, social and business states, and misrepresentations will overwhelm them.

_Claret_.

To dream of drinking claret, denotes you will come under the influence
of ennobling association. To dream of seeing broken bottles of claret,
portends you will be induced to commit immoralities by the false persuasions of deceitful persons.

_Claret Cup and Punch_.

To dream of claret cup or punch, foretells that you will be much
pleased with the attention shown you by new acquaintances.

_Clarionet_.

To dream of a claironet, foretells that you will indulge
in frivolity beneath your usual dignity. {I}f it is broken,
you will incur the displeasure of a close friend.

_Clairvoyance_.

To dream of being a clairvoyant and seeing yourself in the future,








denotes signal changes in your present occupation, followed by a series of unhappy conflicts with designing people.
To dream of visiting a clairvoyant, foretells unprosperous commercial states and unhappy unions.

_Clergyman_.[37]

To dream that you send for a clergyman to preach a funeral sermon,
denotes that you will vainly strive against sickness and to ward off
evil influences, but they will prevail in spite of your earnest endeavors.
If a young woman marries a clergyman in her dream, she will be the object of much mental distress, and the wayward hand of fortune will lead her into the morass of adversity.


[37] See Minister.

_Climbing_.[38]

To dream of climbing up a hill or mountain and reaching the top, you will overcome the most formidable obstacles between you and a prosperous future; but if you should fail to reach the top, your dearest plans will suffer being wrecked.

To climb a ladder to the last rung, you will succeed in business;
but if the ladder breaks, you will be plunged into unexpected straits, and accidents may happen to you.

To see yourself climbing the side of a house in some mysterious
way in a dream, and to have a window suddenly open to let you in, foretells that you will make or have made extraordinary ventures against the approbation of friends, but success will eventually
crown your efforts, though there will be times when despair
will almost enshroud you.
[38] See Ascend Hill and Mountain.
_Clock_.








To dream that you see a clock, denotes danger from a foe. To hear one strike, you will receive unpleasant news.
The death of some friend is implied.

_Cloister_.

To dream of a cloister, omens dissatisfaction with present
surroundings, and you will soon seek new environments.
For a young woman to dream of a cloister, foretells that her
life will be made unselfish by the chastening of sorrow.

_Clothes_.[39]

To dream of seeing clothes soiled and torn, denotes that deceit will be
practised to your harm. Beware of friendly dealings with strangers.
For a woman to dream that her clothing is soiled or torn, her virtue will be dragged in the mire if she is not careful of her associates. Clean new clothes, denotes prosperity.
To dream that you have plenty, or an assortment of clothes, is a doubtful omen; you may want the necessaries of life. To a young person, this dream denotes unsatisfied
hopes and disappointments.


[39] See Apparel.

_Clouds_.

To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management. If rain is falling, it denotes troubles and sickness.
To see bright transparent clouds with the sun shining through them, you will be successful after trouble has been your companion.
To see them with the stars shining, denotes fleeting joys and small advancements.

_Clover_.

Walking through fields of fragrant clover is a propitious dream.










It brings all objects desired into the reach of the dreamer.
Fine crops is portended for the farmer and wealth for the young.
Blasted fields of clover brings harrowing and regretful sighs.

To dream of clover, foretells prosperity will soon enfold you.
For a young woman to dream of seeing a snake crawling through blossoming clover, foretells she will be early disappointed
in love, and her surroundings will be gloomy and discouraging, though to her friends she seems peculiarly fortunate.

_Cloven Foot_.

To dream of a cloven foot, portends some unusual ill luck is threatening you, and you will do well to avoid the friendship of strange persons.

_Club_.

To dream of being approached by a person bearing a club, denotes that you will be assailed by your adversaries, but you will overcome them and be unusually happy and prosperous; but if you club any one,
you will undergo a rough and profitless journey.

_Coach_.

To dream of riding in a coach, denotes continued losses and depressions in business. Driving one implies removal or business changes.

_Coals_.

To see bright coals of fire, denotes pleasure and many pleasant changes. To dream you handle them yourself, denotes unmitigated joy.
To see dead coals implies trouble and disappointments.

_Coal-hod_.

To dream of a coal-hod, denotes that grief will be likely to fill a vacancy
made by reckless extravagance. To see your neighbor carrying in hods,
foretells your surroundings will be decidedly distasteful and inharmonious.

_Coat_.[40]

To dream of wearing another's coat, signifies that you will ask








some friend to go security for you. To see your coat torn,
denotes the loss of a close friend and dreary business.

To see a new coat, portends for you some literary honor.

To lose your coat, you will have to rebuild your fortune lost through being over-confident in speculations.


[40] See Apparel and Clothes.

_Coat-of-Arms_.

To dream of seeing your coat-of-arms, is a dream of ill luck. You will never possess a title.

_Cocoa_.

To dream of cocoa, denotes you will cultivate distasteful friends for your own advancement and pleasure.

_Cocoanut_.
Cocoanuts in dreams, warns you of fatalities in your expectations, as sly enemies are encroaching upon your rights in the guise of ardent friends. Dead cocoanut trees are a sign of loss and sorrow. The death of some one near you may follow.

_Cock-Crowing_.

To dream of hearing a cock crowing in the morning, is significant of good. If you be single, it denotes an early marriage and a luxurious home.

To hear one at night is despair, and cause for tears you will have.

To dream of seeing cocks fight, you will leave your family
because of quarrels and infidelity. This dream usually
announces some unexpected and sorrowful events. The cock
warned the Apostle Peter when he was about to perjure himself.
It may also warn you in a dream when the meshes of the world
are swaying you from ``the straight line'' of spiritual wisdom.










_Cockade_.

This dream denotes that foes will bring disastrous suits against you. Beware of titles.

_Cocktail_.

To drink a cocktail while dreaming, denotes that you will deceive your
friends as to your inclinations and enjoy the companionship of fast
men and women while posing as a serious student and staid home lover. For a woman, this dream portends fast living and an ignoring of moral
and set rules.

_Coca-Cola_.

For a woman to dream that she is drinking coca-cola signifies that she will lose health and a chance for marrying a wealthy man by her abandonment to material delights.

_Coffin_.

This dream is unlucky. You will, if you are a farmer, see your
crops blasted and your cattle lean and unhealthy. To business men
it means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid.
To the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones.
To see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic sorrow may be expected.

To dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and
marriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled. Death may follow this dream, but there will also be good.
To see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed in defeat and ignominy,
To dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse, denotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely
allied to you.

Quarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated.
You will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend.











_Coffee_.

To dream of drinking coffee, denotes the disapproval of friends toward your marriage intentions. If married, disagreements and frequent
quarrels are implied.
To dream of dealing in coffee, portends business failures. If selling, sure loss. Buying it, you may with ease
retain your credit.
For a young woman to see or handle coffee she will be made a by-word if she is not discreet in her actions.
To dream of roasting coffee, for a young woman it denotes escape from evil by luckily marrying a stranger.

To see ground coffee, foretells successful struggles with adversity. Parched coffee, warns you of the evil attentions of strangers.
Green coffee, denotes you have bold enemies who will show you no quarter, but will fight for your overthrow.

_Coffee Mill_.

To see a coffee mill in your dreams, denotes you are approaching a critical danger, and all your energy and alertness will have
to stand up with obduracy to avert its disastrous consequences. To hear it grinding, signifies you will hardly overthrow some evil pitted against your interest.

_Coffee House_.

To see or visit a coffee house in your dreams, foretells that you will
unwisely entertain friendly relations with persons known to be your enemies. Designing women may intrigue against your morality and possessions.

_Coins_.

To dream of gold, denotes great prosperity and much pleasure derived from sight-seeing and ocean voyages.








Silver coin is unlucky to dream about. Dissensions will arise in the most orderly families.
For a maiden to dream that her lover gives her a silver coin, signifies she will be jilted by him.
Copper coins, denotes despair and physical burdens. Nickel coins, imply that work of the lowest nature will devolve upon you.

If silver coins are your ideal of money, and they are bright and clean,
or seen distinctly in your possession, the dream will be a propitious one.

_Coke_.

To dream of coke, denotes affliction and discord will enter your near future.

_Coke Oven_.
To see coke ovens burning, foretells some unexpected good fortune will result from failure in some enterprise.

_Cold_.

To dream of suffering from cold, you are warned to look well to your affairs.
There are enemies at work to destroy you. Your health is also menaced.

_Colonel_.

To dream of seeing or being commanded by a colonel, denotes you will fail to reach any prominence in social or business circles.
If you are a colonel, it denotes you will contrive to hold position above those of friends or acquaintances.

_Collar_.

To dream of wearing a collar, you will have high honors thrust upon you that you will hardly be worthy of. For a woman to dream of collars,
she will have many admirers, but no sincere ones, She will be likely
to remain single for a long while.










_College_.

To dream of a college, denotes you are soon to advance to a position long sought after. To dream that you are back in college, foretells you will receive distinction through some well favored work.

_Colliery or Coal-Mine_.

To dream of being in a coal-mine or colliery and seeing miners, denotes that some evil will assert its power for your downfall; but if you dream of holding a share in a coal-mine, it denotes your safe investment in some deal.
For a young woman to dream of mining coal, foreshows she will become the wife of a real-estate dealer or dentist.

_Collision_.

To dream of a collision, you will meet with an accident of a serious type and disappointments in business.

For a young woman to see a collision, denotes she will be unable to decide between lovers, and will be the cause of wrangles.

_Combat_.

To dream of engaging in combat, you will find yourself
seeking to ingratiate your affections into the life and love
of some one whom you know to be another's, and you will run great risks of losing your good reputation in business.
It denotes struggles to keep on firm ground.
For a young woman to dream of seeing combatants, signifies that she will have choice between lovers, both of whom love her and would face death for her.

_Combing_.[41]

To dream of combing one's hair, denotes the illness or death of a friend or relative. Decay of friendship and loss of property is also indicated
by this dream{.}





[41] See Hair.
_Comedy_.
To dream of being at a light play, denotes that foolish and short-lived pleasures will be indulged in by the dreamer.
To dream of seeing a comedy, is significant of light pleasures and pleasant tasks.

_Comet_.

To dream of this heavenly awe-inspiring object sailing through
the skies, you will have trials of an unexpected nature to beset you, but by bravely combating these foes you will rise above the mediocre in life to heights of fame.

For a young person, this dream portends bereavement and sorrow.

_Comic Songs_.

To hear comic songs in dreams, foretells you will disregard opportunity
to advance your affairs and enjoy the companionship of the pleasure loving. To sing one, proves you will enjoy much pleasure for a time, but difficulties will overtake you.

_Command_.

To dream of being commanded, denotes that you will be humbled in some way by your associates for scorn shown your superiors.
To dream of giving a command, you will have some honor conferred upon you. If this is done in a tyrannical or boastful way disappointments will follow.

_Commandment_.

To dream of receiving commands, foretells you will be unwisely
influenced by persons of stronger will than your own.
To read or hear the Ten Commandments read, denotes you
will fall into errors from which you will hardly escape,
even with the counsels of friends of wise and unerring judgment.











_Commerce_.

To dream that you are engaged in commerce, denotes you
will handle your opportunities wisely and advantageously.
To dream of failures and gloomy outlooks in commercial circles, denotes trouble and ominous threatening of failure in
real business life.

_Committee_.

To dream of a committee, foretells that you will be surprised into doing some distasteful work. For one to wait on you, foretells some unfruitful labor will be assigned you.

_Companion_.

To dream of seeing a wife or husband, signifies small anxieties and probable sickness.
To dream of social companions, denotes light and frivolous pastimes
will engage your attention hindering you from performing your duties.

_Compass_.

To dream of a compass, denotes you will be forced to struggle in narrow limits, thus making elevation more toilsome but
fuller of honor.
To dream of the compass or mariner's needle, foretells you will be surrounded by prosperous circumstances and honest people will favor you.

To see one pointing awry, foretells threatened loss and deception.

_Completion_.

To dream of completing a task or piece of work, denotes that you will have acquired a competency early in life, and that you can spend your days as you like and wherever you please.
For a young woman to dream that she has completed a garment, denotes that she will soon decide on a husband.









To dream of completing a journey, you will have the means to make one whenever you like.

_Complexion_.

To dream that you have a beautiful complexion is lucky. You will pass through pleasing incidents.
To dream that you have bad and dark complexion, denotes disappointment and sickness.

_Composing_.

To see in your dreams a composing stick, foretells that difficult problems
will disclose themselves, and you will be at great trouble to meet them.

_Concert_.
To dream of a concert of a high musical order, denotes delightful seasons of pleasure, and literary work to the author.
To the business man it portends successful trade, and to the young it signifies unalloyed bliss and faithful loves.

Ordinary concerts such as engage ballet singers, denote that
disagreeable companions and ungrateful friends will be met with. Business will show a falling off.

_Concubine_.

For a man to dream that he is in company with a concubine,
forecasts he is in danger of public disgrace, striving to keep
from the world his true character and state of business.
For a woman to dream that she is a concubine, indicates that she will degrade herself by her own improprieties.
For a man to dream that his mistress is untrue, denotes that he has old enemies to encounter. Expected reverses will arise.

_Confectionary_.








To dream of impure confectionary, denotes that an enemy in the guise of a friend will enter your privacy and discover secrets of moment
to your opponents.

_Confetti_.

To dream of confetti obstructing your view in a crowd of merry-makers, denotes that you will lose much by first seeking enjoyment, and later fulfil tasks set by duty.

_Conjurer_.

To dream of a conjuror, denotes unpleasant experience will beset you in your search for wealth and happiness.

_Conjuring_.

To dream that you are in a hypnotic state or under the power of others, portends disastrous results, for your enemies will enthrall you;
but if you hold others under a spell you will assert decided will power in governing your surroundings.

For a young woman to dream that she is under strange influences,
denotes her immediate exposure to danger, and she should beware.

To dream of seeing hypnotic and slight-of-hand performances,
signifies worries and perplexities in business and domestic circles, and unhealthy conditions of state.

_Conflagration_.[42]

To dream of a conflagration, denotes, if no lives are lost, changes in the future which will be beneficial to your interests and happiness.


[42] See Fire.

_Conspiracy_
To dream that you are the object of a conspiracy, foretells you will make a wrong move in the directing of your affairs.











_Conscience_.

To dream that your conscience censures you for deceiving some one, denotes that you will be tempted to commit wrong and should be constantly on your guard.
To dream of having a quiet conscience, denotes that you will stand in high repute.

_Consumption_.

To dream that you have consumption, denotes that you are exposing yourself to danger. Remain with your friends.

_Contempt_.

To dream of being in contempt of court, denotes that you have committed business or social indiscretion and that it is unmerited.

To dream that you are held in contempt by others, you will succeed in
winning their highest regard, and will find yourself prosperous and happy. But if the contempt is merited, your exile from business or social
circles is intimated.

_Convent_.

To dream of seeking refuge in a convent, denotes that
your future will be signally free from care and enemies,
unless on entering the building you encounter a priest.
If so, you will seek often and in vain for relief from worldly cares and mind worry.
For a young girl to dream of seeing a convent, her virtue and honestly will be questioned.

_Convicts_.

To dream of seeing convicts, denotes disasters and sad news. To dream that you are a convict, indicates that you will worry over some affair; but you will clear up all mistakes.








For a young woman to dream of seeing her lover in the garb of a convict, indicates she will have cause to question the character of his love.

_Convicted_.[43]
[43] See Accuse.
_Convention_.

To dream of a convention, denotes unusual activity in business affairs
and final engagement in love. An inharmonious or displeasing convention brings you disappointment.

_×××××ng_.

To **** a meal, denotes some pleasant duty will devolve on you.
Many friends will visit you in the near future. If there is discord
or a lack of cheerfulness you may expect harassing and disappointing events to happen.

_×××××ng Stove_.

To see a ×××××ng stove in a dream, denotes that much
unpleasantness will be modified by your timely interference.
For a young woman to dream of using a ×××××ng stove, foretells she will be too hasty in showing her appreciation of the attention
of some person and thereby lose a closer friendship.

_Cooling Board_.

For a young woman to see a cooling board in her dreams,
foretells sickness and quarrels with her lover. To dream of some
living person as dead and rising up from a cooling board, denotes she will be indirectly connected with that person in some trouble,
but will find out that things will work out satisfactorily.
To see her brother, who has long since been dead, rising from a cooling board, warns her of complications which may be averted if she puts forth the proper will and energy in struggling against them.

_Copper_.





To dream of copper, denotes oppression from those above you in station. _Copperas_.
To dream of copperas, foretells unintentional wrong will be done you which will be distressing and will cause you loss.

_Copper Plate_.

Copper plate seen in a dream, is a warning of discordant views
causing unhappiness between members of the same household.

_Coppersmith_.

To dream of a coppersmith, denotes small returns for labor, but withal *******ment.

_Copying_.

To dream of copying, denotes unfavorable workings of well tried plans.

For a young woman to dream that she is copying a letter, denotes she
will be prejudiced into error by her love for a certain class of people.

_Coral_.

To dream of coral, is momentous of enduring friend ship which will know no weariness in alleviating your trouble. Colored coral is meant in this dream.
White coral, foretells unfaithfulness and warning of love. _Cornet_.
A cornet seen or heard in a dream, denotes kindly attentions from strangers. _Coronation_.

To dream of a coronation, foretells you will enjoy acquaintances
and friendships with prominent people. For a young woman to be participating in a coronation, foretells that she will come










into some surprising favor with distinguished personages.
But if the coronation presents disagreeable incoherence in
her dreams, then she may expect unsatisfactory states growing out of anticipated pleasure.

_Cords_.[44]
[44] See Rope.
_Cork_.
To dream of drawing corks at a banquet, signifies that you will soon enter a state of prosperity, in which you will revel in happiness
of the most select kind.

To dream of medicine corks, denotes sickness and wasted energies.

To dream of seeing a fishing cork resting on clear water, denotes success. If water is disturbed you will be annoyed by unprincipled persons.

To dream that you are corking bottles, denotes a well organized business and system in your living.

For a young woman to dream of drawing champagne corks, indicates she will have
a gay and handsome lover who will lavish much attention and money on her.
She should look well to her reputation and listen to the warning of parents
after this dream.

_Corn_.

To dream of husking pied ears of corn, denotes you will enjoy varied success and pleasure. To see others gathering corn, foretells you will rejoice in the prosperity of friends or relatives.

_Corn and Corn-Field_.

To dream of passing through a green and luxurious corn-field, and seeing
full ears hanging heavily, denotes great wealth for the farmer.
It denotes fine crops and rich harvest and harmony in the home.
To the young it promises much happiness and true friends, but to see
the ears blasted, denotes disappointments and bereavements.









To see young corn newly ploughed, denotes favor with the powerful
and coming success. To see it ripe, denotes fame and wealth.
To see it cribbed, signifies that your highest desires will be realized.

To see ××××led corn, denotes wealthy combines and unstinted favors.

To dream of eating green corn, denotes harmony among friends and happy unions for the young.

_Corns_.

To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some
enemies are undermining you, and you will have much distress; but if you succeed in clearing your feet of corns, you will
inherit a large estate from some unknown source.

For a young woman to dream of having corns on her feet, indicates she will have to bear many crosses and be coldly treated by her sex.

_Corkscrew_.

To dream of seeing a corkscrew, indicates an unsatisfied mind,
and the dreamer should heed this as a warning to curb his desires, for it is likely they are on dangerous grounds.
To dream of breaking a corkscrew while using it, indicates to the dreamer perilous surroundings, and he should use force of will to abandon unhealthful inclinations.

_Corpse_.

To dream of a corpse is fatal to happiness, as this dream indicates
sorrowful tidings of the absent, and gloomy business prospects.
The young will suffer many disappointments and pleasure will vanish.

To see a corpse placed in its casket, denotes immediate troubles to the dreamer.
To see a corpse in black, denotes the violent death of a friend or some desperate business entanglement.









To see a battle-field strewn with corpses, indicates war and general dissatisfaction between countries and political factions.
To see the corpse of an animal, denotes unhealthy situation, both as to business and health.
To see the corpse of any one of your immediate family, indicates death
to that person, or to some member of the family, or a serious
rupture of domestic relations, also unusual business depression.
For lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of
a sacred nature.
To put money on the eyes of a corpse in your dreams, denotes that you will see
unscrupulous enemies robbing you while you are powerless to resent injury.
If you only put it on one eye you will be able to recover lost property after
an almost hopeless struggle. For a young woman this dream denotes distress
and loss by unfortunately giving her confidence to designing persons.

For a young woman to dream that the proprietor of the store in
which she works is a corpse, and she sees while sitting up with him
that his face is clean shaven, foretells that she will fall below
the standard of perfection in which she was held by her lover.
If she sees the head of the corpse falling from the body, she is
warned of secret enemies who, in harming her, will also detract
from the interest of her employer. Seeing the corpse in the store,
foretells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned.
There are those who are not conscientiously doing the right thing.
There will be a gloomy outlook for peace and prosperous work.

_Cornmeal_.

To see cornmeal, foretells the consummation of ardent wishes.
To eat it made into bread, denotes that you will unwittingly
throw obstructions in the way of your own advancement.

_Corner_.

This is an unfavorable dream if the dreamer is frightened and secretes himself in a corner for safety.

To see persons talking in a corner, enemies are seeking to destroy you.








The chances are that some one whom you consider a friend will prove a traitor to your interest.

_Corpulence_.

For a person to dream of being corpulent, indicates to the dreamer bountiful increase of wealth and pleasant abiding places.

To see others corpulent, denotes unusual activity and prosperous times.

If a man or woman sees himself or herself looking grossly corpulent, he or she should look well to their moral nature and impulses.
Beware of either concave or convex telescopically or microscopically drawn pictures of yourself or others, as they forbode evil.

_Corset_.

To dream of a corset, denotes that you will be perplexed as to the meaning
of attentions won by you. If a young woman is vexed over undoing or fastening her corset, she will be strongly inclined to quarrel with her friends
under slight provocations.

_Cossack_.

To dream of a Cossack, denotes humiliation of a personal character, brought about by dissipation and wanton extravagance.

_Cot_.

To dream of a cot, foretells some affliction, either through sickness or accident. Cots in rows signify you will not be alone in trouble, as friends will be afflicted also.

_Cotton_.

To dream of young growing cotton-fields, denotes great business and prosperous times. To see cotton ready for gathering,
denotes wealth and abundance for farmers.
For manufacturers to dream of cotton, means that they will be
benefited by the advancement of this article. For merchants,
it denotes a change for the better in their line of business.











To see cotton in bales, is a favorable indication for better times.

To dream that cotton is advancing, denotes an immediate change from low to high prices, and all will be in better circumstances.

_Cotton Cap_.
It is a good dream, denoting many sincere friends. _Cotton Cloth_.
To see cotton cloth in a dream, denotes easy circumstances. No great changes follow this dream.

For a young woman to dream of weaving cotton cloth,
denotes that she will have a thrifty and enterprising husband.
To the married it denotes a pleasant yet a humble abode.

_Cotton Gin_.

To dream of a cotton gin, foretells you will make some advancement toward fortune which will be very pleasing and satisfactory.
To see a broken or dilapidated gin, signifies misfortune and trouble will overthrow success.

_Couch_.

To dream of reclining on a couch, indicates that false hopes will
be entertained. You should be alert to every change of your affairs, for only in this way will your hopes be realized.

_Cough_.

To dream that you are aggravated by a constant cough indicates a state of low health; but one from which you will recuperate if care is observed in your habits.
To dream of hearing others cough, indicates unpleasant surroundings from which you will ultimately emerge.

_Counter_.









To dream of counters, foretells that active interest will debar idleness from infecting your life with unhealthful desires. To dream of empty and soiled counters, foretells unfortunate engagements which will bring great uneasiness of mind lest your interest will be wholly swept away.

_Counterfeit Money_.

To dream of counterfeit money, denotes you will have trouble with some unruly and worthless person. This dream always omens evil, whether you receive it or pass it.

_Counselor_.

To dream of a counselor, you are likely to be possessed of some ability
yourself, and you will usually prefer your own judgment to that of others. Be guarded in executing your ideas of right.

_Countenance_.

To dream of a beautiful and ingenuous countenance, you may safely look for some pleasure to fall to your lot in the near future; but to behold
an ugly and scowling visage, portends unfavorable transactions.

_Counterpane_.

A counterpane is very good to dream of, if clean and white, denoting pleasant occupations for women; but if it be soiled you may expect harassing situations. Sickness usually
follows this dream.

_Counting_.

To dream of counting your children, and they are merry and sweet-looking, denotes that you will have no trouble in controlling them, and they will
attain honorable places.

To dream of counting money, you will be lucky and always able to pay
your debts; but to count out money to another person, you will meet with loss of some kind. Such will be the case, also, in counting other things.
If for yourself, good; if for others, usually bad luck will attend you.











_Country_.

To dream of being in a beautiful and fertile country, where abound
rich fields of grain and running streams of pure water,
denotes the very acme of good times is at hand. Wealth will pile
in upon you, and you will be able to reign in state in any country.
If the country be dry and bare, you will see and hear of troublous times. Famine and sickness will be in the land.

_Courtship_.

Bad, bad, will be the fate of the woman who dreams of being courted. She will
often think that now he will propose, but often she will be disappointed.
Disappointments will follow illusory hopes and fleeting pleasures.
For a man to dream of courting, implies that he is not worthy of a companion.

_Cousin_.
Dreaming of one's cousin, denotes disappointments and afflictions. Saddened lives are predicted by this dream.
To dream of an affectionate correspondence with one's cousin, denotes a fatal rupture between families.

_Cows_.[45]

To dream of seeing cows waiting for the milking hour, promises abundant fulfilment of hopes and desires.


[45] See Cattle.

_Cowslip_.

To dream of gathering cowslips, portends unhappy ending of seemingly close and warm friendships; but seeing them growing, denotes a limited competency for lovers. This is a sinister dream.

To see them in full bloom, denotes a crisis in your affairs.
The breaking up of happy homes may follow this dream.










_Coxcomb_.

To dream of a coxcomb, denotes a low state of mind.
The dreamer should endeavor to elevate his mind to nobler thoughts.

_Cradle_.

To dream of a cradle, with a beautiful infant occupying it,
portends prosperity and the affections of beautiful children.

To rock your own baby in a cradle, denotes the serious illness of one of the family.
For a young woman to dream of rocking a cradle is portentous of her downfall. She should beware of gossiping.

_Crabs_.

To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs, for the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship.

_Crane_.

To dream of seeing a flight of cranes tending northward, indicates gloomy prospects for business. To a woman, it is significant of disappointment; but to see them flying southward, prognosticates a joyful meeting
of absent friends, and that lovers will remain faithful.
To see them fly to the ground, events of unusual moment are at hand. _Crape_.
To dream of seeing crape hanging from a door, denotes that you will hear of the sudden death of some relative or friend.

To see a person dressed in crape, indicates that sorrow,
other than death, will possess you. It is bad for business and trade. To the young, it implies lovers' disputes and separations.

_Crawfish_.








Deceit is sure to assail you in your affairs of the heart, if you are young, after dreaming of this backward-going thing.

_Crawl_.

To dream that you are crawling on the ground, and hurt your hand, you may expect humiliating tasks to be placed on you.

To crawl over rough places and stones, indicates that you
have not taken proper advantage of your opportunities.
A young woman, after dreaming of crawling, if not very careful of her conduct, will lose the respect of her lover.
To crawl in mire with others, denotes depression in business and loss of credit. Your friends will have cause to censure you.

_Cream_.

To dream of seeing cream served, denotes that you will be associated with wealth if you are engaged in business other than farming.

To the farmer, it indicates fine crops and pleasant family relations.
To drink cream yourself, denotes immediate good fortune.
To lovers, this is a happy omen, as they will soon be united.

_Credit_.

To dream of asking for credit, denotes that you will have cause to worry,
although you may be inclined sometimes to think things look bright.

To credit another, warns you to be careful of your affairs,
as you are likely to trust those who will eventually work you harm.

_Creek_.

To dream of a creek, denotes new experiences and short journeys.
If it is overflowing, you will have sharp trouble, but of brief period.
If it is dry, disappointment will be felt by you, and you will see another obtain the things you intrigued to secure.

_Cremate_.









To dream of seeing bodies cremated, denotes enemies will reduce your influence in business circles. To think you are being cremated, portends distinct failure in enterprises, if you mind any but your own judgment in conducting them.

_Crew_.

To dream of seeing a crew getting ready to leave port,
some unforseen{sic} circumstance will cause you to give up a journey from which you would have gained much.
To see a crew working to save a ship in a storm, denotes disaster on land and sea. To the young, this dream bodes evil.

_Cricket_.

To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news, and perhaps the death of some distant friend.
To see them, indicates hard struggles with poverty.
_Cries_.

To hear cries of distress, denotes that you will be engulfed
in serious troubles, but by being alert you will finally emerge
from these distressing straits and gain by this temporary gloom.
To hear a cry of surprise, you will receive aid from unexpected sources.
To hear the cries of wild beasts, denotes an accident of a serious nature.
To hear a cry for help from relatives, or friends, denotes that they are sick or in distress.

_Criminal_.

To dream of associating with a person who has committed a crime,
denotes that you will be harassed with unscrupulous persons,
who will try to use your friendship for their own advancement.

To see a criminal fleeing from justice, denotes that you will come








into the possession of the secrets of others, and will therefore be in danger, for they will fear that you will betray them,
and consequently will seek your removal.

_Crippled_.

To dream of the maimed and crippled, denotes famine and distress among the poor, and you should be willing to contribute to their store.
It also indicates a temporary dulness in trade.

_Crochet Work_.

To dream of doing crochet work, foretells your entanglement in some silly affair growing out of a too great curiosity about other people's business. Beware of talking too frankly with over-confidential women.

_Crockery_.

To dream of having an abundance of nice, clean crockery,
denotes that you will be a tidy and economical housekeeper.

To be in a crockery store, indicates, if you are a merchant
or business man, that you will look well to the details of your
business and thereby experience profit. To a young woman,
this dream denotes that she will marry a sturdy and upright man. An untidy store, with empty ××××ves, implies loss.

_Crocodile_.

As sure as you dream of this creature, you will be deceived by your warmest friends. Enemies will assail you at every turn.

To dream of stepping on a crocodile's back, you may expect to fall into
trouble, from which you will have to struggle mightily to extricate yourself. Heed this warning when dreams of this nature visit you. Avoid giving your confidence even to friends.

_Cross_.

To dream of seeing a cross, indicates trouble ahead for you. Shape your affairs accordingly.








To dream of seeing a person bearing a cross, you will be called on by missionaries to aid in charities.

_Cross-bones_.

To dream of cross-bones, foretells you will be troubled by the evil influence of others, and prosperity will assume other than promising aspects.

To see cross-bones as a monogram on an invitation to a funeral,
which was sent out by a secret order, denotes that unnecessary fears will be entertained for some person, and events will transpire
seemingly harsh, but of good import to the dreamer.

_Cross Roads_.

To dream of cross roads, denotes you will be unable to hold
some former favorable opportunity for reaching your desires.
If you are undecided which one to take, you are likely to let
unimportant matters irritate you in a distressing manner.
You will be better favored by fortune if you decide on your route. It may be after this dream you will have some important matter of business or love to decide.

_Croup_.

To dream that your child has the croup, denotes slight illness, but useless fear for its safety. This is generally a good omen of health and domestic harmony.

_Crow_.[46]

To dream of seeing a crow, betokens misfortune and grief.
To hear crows cawing, you will be influenced by others to make a bad disposal of property. To a young man, it is indicative of his succumbing to the wiles of designing women.


[46] See Raven.

_Crowd_.

To dream of a large, handsomely dressed crowd of people at










some entertainment, denotes pleasant association with friends;
but anything occurring to mar the pleasure of the guests,
denotes distress and loss of friendship, and unhappiness will
be found where profit and congenial intercourse was expected.
It also denotes dissatisfaction in government and family dissensions.

To see a crowd in a church, denotes that a death will be likely to affect you, or some slight unpleasantness may develop.
To see a crowd in the street, indicates unusual briskness in trade and a general air of prosperity will surround you.
To try to be heard in a crowd, foretells that you will push your interests ahead of all others.

To see a crowd is usually good, if too many are not wearing black or dull costumes.
To dream of seeing a hypnotist trying to hypnotize others, and then turn his attention on you, and fail to do so, indicates that a trouble is hanging above you which friends will not succeed in warding off. Yourself alone can avert the impending danger.

_Crown_.

To dream of a crown, prognosticates change of mode in the habit
of one's life. The dreamer will travel a long distance from home
and form new relations. Fatal illness may also be the sad omen
of this dream.
To dream that you wear a crown, signifies loss of personal property. To dream of crowning a person, denotes your own worthiness.

To dream of talking with the President of the United States,
denotes that you are interested in affairs of state, and sometimes show a great longing to be a politician.

_Crucifixion_.

If you chance to dream of the crucifixion, you will see your
opportunities slip away, tearing your hopes from your grasp,




and leaving you wailing over the frustration of desires. _Crucifix_.
To see a crucifix in a dream, is a warning of distress approaching,
which will involve others beside yourself. To kiss one,
foretells that trouble will be accepted by you with resignation.

For a young woman to possess one, foretells she will observe
modesty and kindness in her deportment, and thus win the love of others and better her fortune.

_Cruelty_.

To dream of cruelty being shown you, foretells you will have trouble and disappointment in some dealings. If it is shown to others,
there will be a disagreeable task set for others by you,
which will contribute to you own loss.

_Crust_.

To dream of a crust of bread, denotes incompetency, and threatened misery through carelessness in appointed duties.

_Crutches_.

To dream that you go on crutches, denotes that you will depend largely on others for your support and advancement.
To see others on crutches, denotes unsatisfactory results from labors. _Crying_.

To dream of crying, is a forerunner of illusory pleasures,
which will subside into gloom, and distressing influences
affecting for evil business engagements and domestic affairs.

To see others crying, forbodes unexpected calls for aid from you.

_Crystal_.

To dream of crystal in any form, is a fatal sign of coming








depression either in social relations or business transactions. Electrical storms often attend this dream, doing damage
to town and country.
For a woman to dream of seeing a dining-room furnished in crystal, even to the chairs, she will have cause to believe that those whom she holds in high regard no longer deserve this distinction, but she will find out that there were others in the crystal-furnished room, who were implicated also in this sinister dream.

_Cuckoo_.

To dream of a cuckoo, prognosticates a sudden ending of a happy life caused by the downfall of a dear friend.

To dream that you hear a cuckoo, denotes the painful illness of the death of some absent loved one, or accident to some one in your family.

_Cucumber_.

This is a dream of plenty, denoting health and prosperity.
For the sick to dream of serving cucumbers, denotes their speedy recovery. For the married, a pleasant change.

_Cunning_.

To dream of being cunning, denotes you will assume happy
cheerfulness to retain the friendship of prosperous and gay people. If you are associating with cunning people, it warns you that
deceit is being practised upon you in order to use your means
for their own advancement.

_Cupboard_.[47]

To see a cupboard in your dream, is significant of pleasure and comfort, or penury and distress, according as the cupboard is clean and full
of shining ware, or empty and dirty.


[47] See Safe.

_Curbstone_.









To dream of stepping on a curbstone, denotes your rapid rise in business circles, and that you will be held in high esteem by your friends and the public.
For lovers to dream of stepping together on a curb, denotes an early marriage and consequent fidelity; but if in your dream you step or fall from a curbstone your fortunes will be reversed.

_Currycomb_.

To dream of a currycomb foretells that great labors must be endured in order to obtain wealth and comfort.

_Currying a Horse_.
To dream of currying a horse, signifies that you will have a great many hard licks to make both with brain and hand before you attain to the heights of your ambition; but if you successfully curry him you will attain that height, whatever it may be.

_Curtains_.

To dream of curtains, foretells that unwelcome visitors will cause
you worry and unhappiness. Soiled or torn curtains seen in a dream means disgraceful quarrels and reproaches.

_Cushion_.

To dream of reclining on silken cushions, foretells that your ease
will be procured at the expense of others; but to see the cushions,
denotes that you will prosper in business and love-making.
For a young woman to dream of making silken cushions, implies that she will be a bride before many months.

_Cuspidor_.

To see a cuspidor in a dream, signifies that an unworthy attachment will be formed by you, and that your work will be neglected.

To spit in one, foretells that reflections wil{sic} be cast




upon your conduct.
_Custard_.[48]

For a married woman to dream of making or eating custard,
indicates she will be called upon to entertain an unexpected guest.
A young woman will meet a stranger who will in time become a warm friend. If the custard has a sickening sweet taste, or is insipid, nothing but
sorrow will intervene where you had expected a pleasant experience.


[48] See Baking.

_Custom-house_.

To dream of a custom-house, denotes you will have rivalries and competition in your labors.

To enter a custom-house, foretells that you will strive for,
or have offered you, a position which you have long desired.

To leave one, signifies loss of position, trade or failure of securing some desired object.

_Cut_.

To dream of a cut, denotes sickness or the treachery of a friend will frustrate your cheerfulness.

_Cymbal_.

Hearing a cymbal in your dreams, foretells the death of a very aged person of your acquaintance. The sun will shine, but you will see it darkly because of gloom.

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