…Rats, whether white, black, or brown, singly or collectively, import illness, death, and serious misfortunes.The night before his son was drowned at sea, a man I once met dreamed his bedroom was full of enormous black rats with grey eyes that raced round and round the bed, and eventually leaped into the empty grate and disappeared up the chimney.Another person, a lady in London, if I remember rightly, dreamed that she saw her youngest daughter sitting on the floor playing with a big brown rat that suddenly sprang at her, tore the ribbon out of her hand, and raced out of the room with it. Some days later, this particular daughter developed consumption, of which she eventually died….

…Dreams that involve our grandparents or ancestors are significant when our grandparents have died and the dream does not go back to scenes of our past life. They are usually the premonition of some misfortune, almost always by our own fault, as if it were a punishment for our faults, often moral or spiritual. Let’s review our behavior and the strength of our moral principles, because maybe we are in time to avoid misfortunes….

…and if it suggests glad tidings, then one may have to wait and exercise patience, but if it suggests evil, then such happening will come fast. During this month, seeing a dream also means victory over one’s enemy, or it could mean conceiving a blessed son who will grow to become a gnostic, or a hero, for it is during this month that the Imam ‘Ali, may God bless his countenance and be forever pleased with him was born. As for the fifth lunar month, known in Arabic as Jamadul Awwal, seeing a dream during this month means that one should slow down or scrutinize his buying and selling, or it could mean that he may lose his daughter or wife, for it is in this month that the daughter of God’s Messenger, upon whom be peace, Fatima died. May God be forever pleased with her. If the dream happens…

…with all the horrible disfigurements of advanced decomposition. But the climax of horror was not yet reached, for, as I gazed, the corpse slowly opened its eyes, and, with a hideous flippancy, winked and leered at me. I awoke sweating with fright, and two or three days later my host died in a fit of apoplexy.A friend of mine, before the death of her brother, dreamed she went to the window one still and moonlight night, and, on peeping out, saw her brother standing on the garden path, looking up at her. His eyes were glassy, his cheeks white and fleshless, and he was swathed all over in a winding-sheet. The sight so shocked her that she awoke, and within the week received tidings that her brother was dead. But these are exceptions, and I maintain that as a rule dreams of the dead presage births, engagements, and marriages….

…coming distress, unless you follow the advice given you. Disastrous consequences could often 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 upon their own subjectivity for true contentment and pleasure. Paracelsus says on this subject: {It may happen that the soul of persons who have died perhaps fifty years ago may appear to us in a dream, and if it speaks to us we should pay special attention to what it says, for such a vision is not an illusion or delusion, and it is possible that a man is as much able to use his reason during the sleep of his body as…

To have interaction with a corpse, when you are dreaming, is symbolism of an aspect of your character that has died. To see corpse in the dream also may mean that you are not expressive. Maybe you are lacking good emotions and feelings. Corpse also indicate that you are feeling depressed and dead inside. You should try to be more expressive, even if there is a lot of troubles in your life. Help yourself by sharing your inner hurt.

When the feeling in the dream is of worry and heaviness for what was lost denotes the existence of feelings of guilt linked to the symbolism of what was lost. If we stubbornly seek what we have lost, then it indicates ambition and greed. If the feeling is of relief or rejection it reveals the desire or need to discard what we have lost. To feel lost or wandering is a way of feeling that something has died in us, almost always regarding the moral or spiritual life.

The funeral in dreams indicate the end of something in your life. Perhaps there is some relationships that have come to an end and your inner self has finally understood it. The funeral could also indicate your fear of losing the loved ones. Sometimes the funeral indicates the fact that someone has died. To get more detailed dream interpretation, please also see the meaning of burial.

…In a dream, a fever means paying one’s debts, for fever in wakefulness is an atonement for sins. Fever in a dream also means a threat and a menace. If one sees someone he knows suffering from fever in a dream, it means that he will get involved in a business that will require him to lose his religious commitment. Fever in a dream also means wearing the garment of a revered person. Fever is the messenger of the angel of death and his warner. It reminds the person to repent before death comes and to corrects his conduct with his Lord before meeting Him. A feverish shiver in a dream means negligence and disdain regarding one’s religious duties. If one sees that he died and was washed and shrouded in preparation for burial in a dream, it means that he is persistent in indulging in sins and that…

To dream that you discourse with your brethren, betokens vexations; because our brethren bring us nothing when they are born, but diminish our inheritance and succession, and are the cause that those things which would be all our own are divided into many parts between them and us. The one who dreamed that he buried, or caused to be interred, one of his brothers, departed, and a little while after, one of his chief adversaries died. To dream of the death of our brethren, signifies, not only the loss of our enemies, but also deliverance or acquaintance from some loss or hurt which attended us, and whereof we stood in fear; as it happened to Diocles, the grammarian, who sustained no loss of money, whereof he stood in doubt, and was afraid because he dreamed before that he saw his brother dead.

Dreaming of seeing some kind of photograph that is old could represent the longing for someone very important in our lives. It could be the person who suddenly died, or the times you were happy at safe place. The photos could also have a negative meaning and may protect you from lies and swindles. The pictures could also be interpreted as something we cannot let go such as our past and find it difficult to live at the present and only thinking about the future. Do not think too much about it. Also, do not make the same mistakes you did in the past.

…(Death | Punishment) In a dream, crucifixion means exaltation of the one who is put on the cross, or a high rank he will attain. If one who qualifies for a leadership position sees himself crucified in a dream, it means that he will attain his goals. If he dies of his crucifixion in the dream, it means that he will lose faith or fail to apply the divine laws in his life. If he is crucified in the dream and does not die from it, it means that he will rule with justice. If an average person sees himself crucified in a dream, it means that he will be humiliated and suppressed. If one sees himself raised to be crucified after he had died in a dream, it means that he will attain worldly status, though remains morally defiled and religiously corrupt. If one sees himself crucified and…

…The significance of stones (precious and other-wise). Amethyst, success in courtship; blood-stones, legacies; coral, a birth; cornelian, treachery; diamonds, drowning; emeralds, great success in the arts; jasper, inconstancy; opal, separation, divorce, rapture in friendships; pearls, great sorrow; rubies, lover’s kisses; turquoise, the breaking off of an engagement; sapphires, a wedding; common pebbles, petty troubles; black rocks, illness and death; sand, a serious calamity; chalk, ailment or death of a child; granite, accident on land; marble, death.To dream of teeth coming out portends illness or death, but not necessarily of the dreamer. For example, a man told me that, on the night preceding the death of one of his brothers, he dreamed his teeth fell out, and that on one of them was a portrait of the brother who died….

If you dream that you are dead, then such dream foretells that you should start your life from the scratch. Everything must change completely even if you are afraid to do so. If someone from your family or friends has died, then it shows the actual fear you have while losing them, because you love them a lot. It is very common explanation. Overall, the death is a symbol of the new start and the end of something in your life.

It indicates that we have or will have a sincere friend that we should not neglect.

To dream the clock strikes, and that you count, but that instant it stands still, forebodes death to some old friend, but if the hand moves again, the party will recover.

…(Lignite | Velvet-black coal used for jewelry.) In a dream, jet denotes festivities, celebrations, happiness, honor, or marriage. In a dream, jet also represents suspicious money, tainted profits, or a friend for interest, and if one’s wife is pregnant, it means that she will deliver a son….

…Dreaming of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed in harassing and causing you loss. For a young woman to have her pocket picked, denotes she will be the object of some person’s envy and spite, and may lose the regard of a friend through these evil machinations, unless she keeps her own counsel. If she picks others’ pockets, she will incur the displeasure of a companion by her coarse behavior….

…Dreaming 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…

…If a man dreams he is serving on a jury, it is a sign some friend will ask a favour of him that he will hesitate to grant. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 38, 3….

Surprised by some agreeable occurrence, meeting with a friend. 133.

…Dreaming of a mausoleum, indicates the sickness, death, or trouble of some prominent friend. To find yourself inside a mausoleum, foretells your own illness….

…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….

…If a criminal under sentence of death dream of a reprieve or pardon, he may make up his mind that it is all over with him; and if any friend, who is interested in his fate, dreams this, it amounts to about the same thing. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 76, 5….

…To dream you are eating raw chestnuts, shows you will be fortunate in love affairs. Boiled chestnuts, signifies you will be fortunate in business. To dream you prick your hand with a chestnut burr, is a sign your confidence will be abused by a pretended friend. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 7, 18….

Dreaming that you hear the shrill startling notes of the screech-owl, denotes that you will be shocked with news of the desperate illness, or death of some dear friend.

…Dreaming of seeing a piano, denotes some joyful occasion. To hear sweet and voluptuous harmony from a piano, signals success and health. If discordant music is being played, you will have many exasperating matters to consider. Sad and plaintive music, foretells sorrowful tidings. To find your piano broken and out of tune, portends dissatisfaction with your own accomplishments and disappointment in the failure of your friends or children to win honors. To see an old-fashioned piano, denotes that you have, in trying moments, neglected the advices and opportunities of the past, and are warned not to do so again. For a young woman Dreaming that she is executing difficult, but entrancing music, she will succeed in winning an indifferent friend to be a most devoted and loyal lover….

…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….

Dreaming of having a huge appetite may mean the departure of a close relative or a close friend.

…had been taken seriously ill, and within the week she received the news that her aunt was dead.Another lady once dreamed she saw her youngest sister lying on the grass, apparently asleep, with two bats on her face. With a cry of dismay, for she loathed bats, my friend picked up a spade, the first thing that came to hand, to knock them off, when the scene changed, and she found herself digging a grave! She awoke in terror, and two days later heard of the death of her youngest sister, who had succumbed under an operation for appendicitis.Writing to me from Gipsy Hill, Norwood, a lady said: My sister Mabel once dreamed a bat settled on her shoulder, and she could not get it off. She awoke in a great fright, she told me, and she could not help feeling that the dream prognosticated something unpleasant. Her presentiment, unhappily,…

Hope of cure for a sick friend.

…surly regain their rights. If one sees a large number of coffins scattered in a specific locality in a dream, it means that the people of that community will break into violence, adultery and evildoing. Carrying a coffin in a dream means earning unlawful income. If a woman sees her own funeral in a dream it means that she will get married. If she is married, it means payment of her debts. A funeral crossing a marketplace in a dream means liquidation of merchandise. Paying tribute to a funeral in a dream means bidding farewell or paying respect to a travelling friend. Paying tribute to a passing funeral procession in a dream represents one’s concern for his own comfort. If the deceased in the coffin points at the person seeing the dream, it means that the latter will conduct his funeral, and he will receive a reward for his service….

If you hug someone in a dream, then such dream indicates the necessity for affection. If you hug the stranger, then such dream represents how lonely you are feeling. If you hug your friend or your partner or anyone else that is close to you, then such dream shows how deeply you love these people. Sometimes hugging is not a very good omen, because it shows the enemy that might be trying to cheat on you.

…(See Trap and Mouse.) To dream of rats is a sign that thieves are around: if you see any of these animals, it shows that some friend will be robbed, but if you hear them gnawing, you will suffer a loss from robbery yourself. If a girl, who has a lover, dreams of rats, she had better be careful and not let him be too free with her person, or he may rob her of that which cannot be restored. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 54 21…

…To dream you are jealous of your sweetheart, or wife, signifies that they will betray you; for a maiden to dream she is jealous of her sweetheart is a sign some particular friend will “cut her out” for a wife to dream she is jealous of her husband, foretells the loss of his love. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 28, 6….

Seeing a happy friend; bad for servants, for others good; also denotes generosity.

…When a man dreams that someone that he loves is absent, it indicates big issues that need his attention, and if he is older, it indicates that he has too many things accumulated, or too many issues unaddressed. Anyone, who dreams of grieving for the absence of someone, probably has annoying situations with old friends; if you dream that someone’s absence (friend or relative) gives you joy, it announces that you’ll soon be free of those enemies that have been bothering you. If you dream that someone is traveling far away but will return soon, suggests that some issues that were apparently resolved are going to return. If you feel happy because someone is absent, it indicates the desire to get rid of enemies and difficult situations. If someone that is absent dies, it suggests the probability of an upcoming wedding. Any young person, who dreams of absent people,…

To dream yourself or friend is buried foretells a serious fit of illness. But if the grave is filled up, it is a sure sign of death. If, not the parties will recover, and lead a happy life.

…Dreaming that you are eating ice cream, foretells you will have happy success in affairs already undertaken. To see children eating it, denotes prosperity and happiness will attend you most favorably. For a young woman to upset her ice cream in the presence of her lover or friend, denotes she will be flirted with because of her unkindness to others. To see sour ice cream, denotes some unexpected trouble will interfere with your pleasures. If it is melted, your anticipated pleasure will reach stagnation before it is realized….

…Dreaming 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….