…A huge, old-fashioned silver stand, containing one big fruit dish and four small ones, stood in the centre of the table, whilst all round were big silver cake dishes. To each place there were at least five too many forks and spoons, whilst on the sideboard was the most vulgar (you see, sir, I understand the real use of that word) display of silver bowls, cups, entree and bon-bon dishes, knives, forks, and spoons I ever have seen. The sole idea of the hostess seemed to be to impress her visitors with a sense of her wealth — she had, so to speak, purposely made an exhibition of it.”I was so interested in my observations that, quite unconsciously, I left the shelter of the trees, and, stepping up to the railings, leaned over them. I was now close to the window, the lower panes of which were almost on…

…for a rich person and bad news for a poor person. Drinking a glass of apple juice in a dream means benefits drawn from a servant or an employee, a service offered by a powerful person, or it could mean a stressful life. If one drinks something to cure an illness in a dream, it means recovering from that illness if it exists. Otherwise, it means that he might suffer from such an illness and take such a drink as a cure. Any constipating drink in a dream means stinginess, while taking a laxative in a dream means generosity. A headache reliever or a pain killer means kindness or diplomacy and the same goes for any drink that cleanses the kidney. Beside that, drinks denote architecture, religious studies, addressing matters promptly or hiding secrets. Colorful drinks in a dream represent happiness, joy, festivi- ties, celebrations and correcting one’s behavior. Fruit…

…it could mean disdaining to obey God’s commands, or it could mean becoming an apostate. A drinking glass cup in a dream represents a woman. Receiving a glass of water in a dream means that one’s wife is pregnant. An unknown kind of glass cup or a roughly cut drinking glass of water in a dream means that there is a fetus in the mother’s womb. If the glass of water breaks and the water remains in the dream, it means that the mother may die after giving birth and the infant will survive. If the water spills and the glass remains intact in the dream, it means that the fetus may die and the mother will survive. The breaking of a glass in a dream also denotes the death of the one who is serving it. If a sick person is given a glass of wine, or water, or…

…Seeing an old ex-boyfriend from childhood in the dream, may have two a lot of meanings in relation to the feeling of dream. If the dream was good and the connection with ex-boyfriend was huge, then dream represents your longing of that feeling. Alternatively, it means that you are reliving the past in order to have better future. You are recharging yourself with old good emotions throughout your dream. When old connection with your ex of childhood was very simple and without big expectations then such dream represents your freedom. It refers to a freer, less overloaded relationship. The dream brings you back to a time where the responsibilities of adulthood (or marriage) didn’t restrict the spontaneity of youth and the romance of undiscovered feelings. You need to recollect the enthusiasm, freedom, and energy of youth that may be lacking in your current relationship. To dream that your ex-boyfriend…

Dreaming that you are looking for a job means you are not satisfied in real life. It represents your current job satisfaction. It may also mean that something should be done immediately. To dream of work indicates that you experience anxiety over a project. It may also mean that you need some rest. Dreams about previous work, means experience should be applied to your current situation. To dream of hard work may suggest success and merit. Alternatively, you can suggest anxiety about a job or current project.

…a grocer in Lemon Street, and must be making a good six hundred a year clear profit. He hires a carriage every Sunday afternoon — not that I approve of desecrating the Sabbath in such a manner — only in his case there is some excuse, as he is hard-working and honest, and his wife is too delicate to walk; she is most genteel, she invariably dresses in silk when she comes to chapel, and gives most liberally. Her daughter’s name isMartha — Martha!” and he turned up his eyes heavenwards as he repeated the name. “Well, to prove to you how sorely the devil tries me,” he went on, ” I dreamed last night I was calling on the Gardner’s, and, just as Mrs. Gardner was handing me a cup of tea, into the room, with a bounce and giggle (so utterly unlike herself; she is a most decorous…

…If you dream about seeing someone cutting your hair, then such dream represents new opportunities, chances in fresh start. If you are the hairdresser in a dream, then such dream indicates your view towards other people. On the other hand, being a hairdresser in a dream, could show the necessity to build your image in better way. The hairdresser in dreams could also be the symbol of your sexuality, especially if you dream about long, shiny and healthy hair. If you are the hairdresser and cutting your own hair in a dream, then it shows how you are looking after yourself mentally and physically. Being the hairdresser could also point to your desire to change something about yourself or those around you. If you dream that you see other person being at hairdressers, then it denotes to your opinions about that certain person. Overall, the dream about hairdresser is…

…(Beauty | Eulogy | Hardness | Wealth) In a dream, marble represents prosperity, a beautiful wife, respectable people, class, servants, or properties. If a poor person sees the floor of his house covered with marble in a dream, it means prosperity, marriage, purchasing a business, acquiring knowledge, learning a poem, bearing righteous children, or if he qualifies, it could mean that he will receive a high ranking appointment, or that he may actually work with marble, or in sculpturing marble or in manufacturing fountains from marble, or work in masonry, or as a stone cutter, or he may change his attitude toward things, signaling the end of depression and the start of a joyful time in his life, living in high rises, or spending money for leisure and vacations. If one sees gravestones made of marble, or if one sees marble pillars in a dream, it means a good…

…Dreaming about being poisoned warns about negative influences that are trying to harm you. Dreaming of oneself poisoning others warns that you’re misjudging and unjustly judging others and causing them harm. If a young person is dreaming of himself poisoning a rival, it warns that he or she needs to clarify the situation with the partner in order to avoid greater damages. Dreaming of oneself throwing the poison to the ground means that current plans will be abandoned. Dreaming about other people handling poisons suggests that one is surrounded by dishonest people who’re trying to hurt him. Dreaming that one’s relatives are poisoned warns that they’ll suffer damage caused by others. Dreaming that an enemy, rival or competitor is being poisoned announces serious trouble for the dreamer. Dreaming of oneself poisoned, but managing to cure himself or herself, can mean that the dreamer will triumph over current problems, however…

Have them longer than ordinarily symbolizes great profits. See them cut, or the fingers that are cut means dishonor, loss, family quarrels. Have the nails torn out a deluge of miseries, of afflictions, danger of death, positive domestic ruin.

…Dreaming about your ex-boyfriend / ex-girlfriend or ex-husband / ex-wife or to dream that you and your ex got back together again, symbolizes that you have feelings to something or someone in your current life. Dreaming about ex, shows that now in your life is something or someone, that is bringing out similar feelings you felt during the relationship with your ex. Also, dream about ex may be an alert for you. The dream may be a way of indicating you to the same or similar situation, behavior in a current relationship. If this is a reason, then you must apply this: what you have learned from that previous relationship with ex may need to be applied to the curent relationship, because only then you will not repeat the same mistake. Alternatively, past lovers in dreams often give special importance or prominence to the positive experiences you had with…

Books and pages reflect our life and destiny from an emotional point of view and almost always as a memory. To dream about a closed book or a book buried at the bottom of a trunk reveals the existence of a secret or stage of our life we want to keep hidden. A book with missing pages indicates that an episode of our lives we did not want to reveal will come to light. The dusty books on the table or lying on the ground reveal the existence of unfinished projects. A well-stocked library reveals our interest in cultural issues. If the shelves are empty that indicates we waste too much time in diversions that interfere with our cultural formation.

…(Cincture | Cummerbund | Fastening | Sash | Waist belt) In a dream, a belt depicts the carrier of burdens. It also implies travels, money, savings or stinginess. It also could mean serious endeavors and assiduity in seeking knowledge. A belt or a waistband in a dream could represent one’s wife or his property. If a woman sees herself wearing a waistband, then it represents her brother, brother in-law, or father in-law. If she is pregnant, it means that she will beget a daughter. If a man sees himself wearing a waistband in a dream, it represents a woman in his family to whom it is unlawful for him to marry. A brokenbelt in a dream means a fight with one’s wife. If one’s waistband becomes a snake in the dream, it means enmity with his brother in-law. If his waistband is drenched in blood in the dream, it…

…(Cure | Bitter almond | Sweet almond | Truth) In a dream, almond represent a cure for an illness, impeachment of a governor or loss of one’s job. In a dream, almond also represent a deceased person in his shroud or in his grave. Yet, seeing fresh green almond in season in a dream means profits and blessings. Sweet almond in a dream represent lawful money or earnings, depending on the quantity one sees in his dream. Eating sweet almond in a dream means profits, though to be earned with a fight. Plucking almond from a tree in a dream means earning money from a niggardly person with a fight. An almond tree in a dream also represents one who is stingy with people, though generous with his wife and children. Eating sweet almond in a dream also means tasting the sweetness of one’s faith. Bitter almond in a…

Dreaming of pillows or cushions is an invitation to be more circumspect; it also indicates the existence of ambushes. If the pillows or cushions are soft, indicates weakness; on the other hand, if they are hard, they indicate strength of character. If it’s an embroidered pillow, it indicates greatness.

…Silk in any form, is a symbol of erotic and physical pleasures. Overall, this dream usually predicts physical or emotional satisfaction, and it also indicates that it is a good time for love. Dreaming of resting on a silk cushion or pillow means that you’re trying to solve the issues you have in your own affairs and poverty at the expense or sacrifice of others. Dreaming of silk cushions without touching them announces prosperity or success in the affairs you’re handling. A young woman who dreams of sewing or making a silk cushion, indicates that she wants to get married with someone good. Dreaming of wearing silk clothes suggests that you have too many ambitions for money, power, and business. It also reveals vanity and pride. If the silk clothing is dirty or stained, it means disappointment, sadness and failures. Dreaming with silkworms may mean that you’ll get a…

…When a woman is looking through a glass in her dream, at several men who aren’t her husband or lover, it suggest that her behavior isn’t very honest which will lead to disrepute. Dreaming of oneself looking through a crystal, usually means that bad times and loss of hope are coming. To dream that there’s another face next to yourself in a glass or mirror, suggests that the dreamer is leading a double life, which will lead him to trouble. Dreaming of smashing glasses, for example doors or windows, may suggest that your plans, intentions or projects will fail. If there’s broken glass in the dream, it almost always means that we’ll receive sad news. Dreaming about receiving cut glass objects shows the upcoming success, and in some cases the honor if you’re involved in artistic activities. Giving cut glass objects to others means self-humiliation which will lead to…

…tight financial circumstances. Swallowing a sword in a dream means gathering the spoils of war. If a sword swallows someone in a dream, it means a snakebite. In a dream, the sheath of a sword represents a woman. Hitting someone with a sword in a dream means insulting him with harsh words. Sheathing one’s sword in a dream means marriage. If the blade ceases to cut in a dream, it means that one’s words will bear no weight. If one is hit with a sword, and if he loses his hand, his leg, or receives wounds in the dream, it means having an argument that involves one’s father, son, or brother, etcetera, depending which limb and what member of one’s family it represents. If one’s head is cut off with a sword in a dream, it means that the one who received the blow will triumph over the one who…

The beautiful fruits that are fully cultivated signifies happiness fertility and joy. Most of the fruits are the symbols of vitality and fertility. Green fruit represents the hard work one will have to do, because they are not fully cultivated, that is why you will have to put much effort to make them eatable.

…name. If an old man shaves his beard in a dream, it means that he will lose his good reputation at the hand of a profiteer and an overpowering enemy. If one’s beard is cut off in a dream, it means financial losses valued at how far it is trimmed. Clipping what is longer than man’s grip of one’s beard in a dream means paying the due alms tax. Cutting off someone’s beard in a dream means swindling his inheritance. A white beard in a dream means honor, dignity and good fame. If one’s beard turns gray, leaving few black hairs in the dream, it means earning respect. If all its hair becomes gray in the dream, it means poverty and loss of integrity. Seeing one’s wife having a beard in a dream means increase in one’s wealth or growth of the son’s business, or sickness of one’s wife, or…

…true fear of losing driver’s license. As external stimuli, dreaming about driver’s license represents how important this permission is for you. On spiritual plane, the dream about license to drive is like the authorisation to seek superior spiritual enlightenment. You are in right path if you have this license, but if you lost it – you in trouble. It means that you don’t have enough reasons for being more spiritual. Psychologically and emotionally, the license to drive is associated with right qualification and controlled feelings. It means that you are able to provide yourself with right decisions without hurry or uncontrolled thoughts. If you lost in the dream, then it represents your fear of losing your control and ability to make decisions. Also, it can represent your current situation, in which you’re feeling disabled. To find, means to solve problems or to bring your qualities back. Driving drunk, on drugs…

(Crafty | Cunning | Embroidering) A craftsman who applies a mono- gram or embroiders a garment in a dream represents a cunning and a crafty man of knowledge. (Also see Embroiderer)

Dreaming you cut your fingers, or see them cut by another, betokens damage. To dream you lose some or all of your fingers, implies either the hurt or loss of servants. To scriveners, orators, and attorneys, it is a sign they shall want employment; to debtors, that they shall pay more than they owe; to usurers, loss by interest.

To dream that you have the right arm cut off, is significant of the death of a female relative; if both arms are cut off, captivity and sickness; an arm broken, or withered, sorrows, losses, and widowhood; an arm swollen, sudden fortune falling to a dear friend; to dream that you have strong arms, signifies health and happiness; dirty arms, misery; hairy arms, an increase of fortune and family.

…Dream of cutting off somebody’s head means security in undertakings, revenge upon enemies. If you behead an armed person who is capable of defense, you will enter into the employment of some influential functionary, to where you will prove of great service. Cut the head off for a chicken will bring joy, unexpected pleasure. Dream of being beheaded, where the dreamer is a prisoner, denotes to liberty, if a sick person beheading the chicken, restoration to health, if in affliction, consolation, if in debt, payment of his indebtedness, if elevated to dignities, continuation in advancement. As a general thing this dream replaces fears and cares into joy, and a merited confidence of people in their subordinates. Dream of being beheaded by an acquaintance, then it signifies attendance in his pleasures, success, or dignities. For a child, if the dreamer is ill, the dream shows that he will be in…

Dream of a mansion symbolizes your potential and greatest growth. You may feel that the current situation or relationship is in a circle. Dream of a mansion symbolizes your ability to grow and develop your potential. On the other hand, it also indicates that your current relationship or situation is stagnant and you need to move forward.

…(Cutting remark | Oversight) A slip of one’s tongue, or to slip in a cutting remark in a dream may mean walking on a slippery surface, or vice- versa. (Also see Slippery surface)…

…spying or eavesdropping. To take a laxative in a dream means attempting to correct one’s religious devotion, or it could mean washing one’s body from impurities. The success of one’s attempt depends on the potency of his medi- cine. Seeking good health in a dream means trying to amend one’s life for the better. The same meaning applies if one sees himself using an ointment for his eyes. A yellow colored medicine in a dream means illness. A laxative in a dream means a cure for a sick person and a warning for a healthy person to correct himself. A bad tasting medicine in a dream means a fever followed by a chill. Good tasting medicine in a dream is beneficial for rich people, though bad for poor people. Interpreting a cure with a medicine in a dream is not like interpreting recovering without a medicine. (Also see Grapes)…