…For persons dreaming of peacocks, there lies below the brilliant and flashing ebb and flow of the stream of pleasure and riches, the slums of sorrow and failure, which threaten to mix with its clearness at the least disturbing influence. For a woman dreaming that she owns peacocks, denotes that she will be deceived in her estimate of man’s honor. To hear their harsh voices while looking upon their proudly spread plumage, denotes that some beautiful and well-appearing person will work you discomfort and uneasiness of mind….
Dream dictionary: flashing dream meanings
…Dreaming about a constant light of any kind, and better if its sunlight is a good sign that announces a nearby success. To dream about a flashing light is a negative sign that announces relative or temporary success. To dream about a dim light suggests that the issues that are being handled will continue the way they are, without any appreciable change. To dream about light flashes that annoy your view suggests that soon you’ll suffer setbacks and frustrations. To dream about exaggerated lit faces suggests that anything that you’ve thought to do will be made secretly. To dream about an extremely lit sky, without knowing the reason why it is that way, suggests that you’re falling in deep sorrow because you portend a misfortune. To dream about children that are standing under an intense moonlight is a warning that you should control your thoughts and actions to avoid…
…in which I found myself, was at least three times the size of any I had hitherto seen. It was already full of white-faced people, who, sitting and lying among innumerable boxes in, apparently, the most uncomfortable postures, were fast asleep and snoring snoring to the most fantastic and taking of tunes I have ever heard. My not having a ticket greatly perturbed me. I expected every moment the collector would put in an appearance and make a scene, and, sure enough, in accordance with my forebodings, in he came, accompanied by the guard, engine-driver; foreman, and half-a-dozen other officials, who, rushing on me with livid faces and flashing eyes; were about to annihilate me altogether when a tremendous hubbub on the line attracted the attention of one and all, and a most extraordinary spectacle presented itself to our gaze. Exactly opposite our compartment was a monstrous green engine…