Abandonment

Someone who dreams of being abandoned by close family may be experiencing greater personal and sexual freedom than he or she has had before. Dreams of being abandoned may also reflect feelings of being unwanted or unloved, feelings of emotional isolation.

Abbey

One of comfort, peace of mind. The symbolism of sanctuary is quite obvious.

Abduction

If the dreamer

Abortion

A dream regarding abortion by a man reflects feelings of guilt, not necessarily in connection with parenthood or an actual abortion. When this dream is by a woman, it indicates anxiety about starting out, or starting afresh in life.

Abroad

To dream of foreign travel may represent the dreamer

Alcohol

Dreams of being intoxicated and incapable may point to excesses of some type within the life of the dreamer; it may mean a subconscious fear of losing control over oneself.

Angel

To have an Angel appear within a dream is often a symbol for the Mother of the dreamer, or the aspects of the dreamers Mother which exercised a benevolent or benign influence over his or her lifestyle. A purely Christian symbol of protection, divine grace etc, to the dreamer it prophecies peace and unspeakable happiness.

Ants

To the tradesperson this dream signifies success. In Mediaeval times this symbol typified industry. Plato said the souls of unimaginative people return to the Earth as ants.

Anvil

An anvil usually indicates prosperity despite obstacles in the way. It is an emblem of the primal force.

Appetite

Dreams involving the appetite are generally sexually orientated. Loss of appetite can mean loss of libido, hunger or thirst represents great sexual desire.

Apple Tree

If it is alive and flourishing, good news, if dead, bad tidings. In mystic literature the apple tree is

Ashes

A dream of trouble and misfortune is at hand. Ashes are a Christian symbol of mourning and grief.

Axe

To see an axe in ones dream means death. Freud says this is an erotic dream although the interpretation is somewhat hazy. Amongst the primitive races the axe was always the symbol for God or the Divine Being. It later became a symbol of solar power, in modern times its symbolic nature was that of a murderous weapon.

Baby

Babies are often seen within dreams. One that is crying is thought to represent illness of some kind. The baby dream also represented one

Back

To see your own back within a dream indicates misfortune, an uneasy mind or sickness. It is often a dream brought on by the physical condition, from backache. Its discomfort draws the dreamer

Balloon

This dream is from Gypsy folklore and symbolizes unsuccessful schemes.

Bathing

To dream of bathing within clean, clear water is a dream of great and good fortune, within muddy water, and then the reverse is true.

Bells

Under most conditions this represents a good dream (from Gypsy Folklore). It was believed by the ancients to disperse storms, drive away pestilence and to extinguish fires and demons. In modern times it has become a dream of forewarning that the dreamer should take note of lest they overlook it.

Birds

Dreams of birds signify many things; generally they are thought to represent an aspect of the human being, particularly intellect and spirituality. Each bird signifies something different, and, as we are giving a general guide only to dreams, then each bird must be looked and studied in-depth. The Celts have their own unique representation of each and every bird dream, for they relied upon them in ancient times for many things, such as warnings etc. The Chinese also have their own symbolism, including other cultures.

Birth

To dream of a birth taking place often means some type of fresh start or major change within the life of the dreamer. For a female, dreams of giving birth may represent a wish or desire to be fulfilled.

Book

Dreaming of a book represents wisdom and learning. A book that will not open will signify that a secret cannot be revealed. An open book means opportunity for learning and changes that are for the better in the dreamer

Bull

This dream indicates violent enemies and slander. To be attacked by one can often be interpreted as an omen (or an erotic dream). It is the Assyrian symbol of royal authority and of the Sun, to the Egyptians and the Romans it is sacred. In modern times it represents strength, yet in Gypsy dreams it bears an evil meaning, either due to the legend of the golden calf or to the evil construction of all erotic or phallic symbols.

Buoy

In Gypsy Folklore this is a dream of warning, danger ahead.

Butterfly

Restlessness and inconstancy within Gypsy Folklore. It is the Greek symbol for the psyche or soul. The significance of it bursting from its chrysalis into glory was, sadly, lost during the middle ages, when a more shallow meaning was used. Now within our modern world the butterfly means playfulness and living in pleasure.

Cage

Dreaming of a cage without birds denotes trouble for the dreamer. With birds it means happiness and contentment, if the door is open and the bird has flown, then desertion by a lover or spouse. Dreams of anything within a cage represent frustration to the dreamer, their ambitions, their goals etc.

Camel

This is often a dream of many burdens that are patiently borne. In modern time

Candle

To dream of one being lit suggests a birth is imminent. Of making one means joy and satisfaction, to view one burning brightly means prosperity, health to invalids, and marriage to single people. One that burns dimly signifies sickness, delay and sadness. Brightly burning candles for any dreamer suggests a strong desire to find fulfilment in a spiritual way.

Captive

A dream of being held captive suggests that the dreamer is unhappy within a relationship, or within a place of work. They may feel restricted in life.

Castle

Dreaming of castle

Cellar

If you dream you are within one, foretells that you are threatened with illness. (Gypsy Folklore.)

Christ

To dream of Christ shows that the dreamer is seeking religious commitment or consolation. To see Christ upon the cross symbolizes trouble, sorrow and often an expression of religious guilt.

Club

A dream that predicts suffering and misfortune (Gypsy Folklore), Freud regarded it as a phallic symbol. It symbolized strength and power amongst the ancients, bearing no erotic symbolism. To Christians it became an emblem of suffering and martyrdom.

Daffodils

A Gypsy dream of good health and good news.

Daisy

This is a good dream in Spring and Summer, predicting a true lover, or a bad one in Winter or Autumn. The Daisy symbolizes the eye of the day and the sun.

Dancing

Dancing within a dream is taken to be symbolic of the interaction of people on an emotional level. It can also reflect feelings of elation, victory or joy that the dreamer experience

Day

Dreaming of a clear day is always a good omen.

Death

Dreaming of the death of someone may indicate feelings of anger towards that particular person, even a desire to severe the relationship with him or her, thus, being free of them. It is highly unlikely that the dreamer wishes the person involved to be dead. Dreaming of one

Deluge

An overwhelming business loss, the dreamers financial affairs are more often related to storm and rain dreams.

Departure

Dreaming of another person leaving somewhere or someone has significant relations to changes within the dreamers life, a leaving behind of old attitudes, or a major change within their lifestyle.

Devil

This is the worst possible dream (Gypsy Folklore) for any Individual to have. Dreaming of the Devil is not only frightening but shows the dreamer within a deep sub-conscious level has been carrying much guilt.

Drowning

This is an unfortunate dream predicting illness, a dream that is evidently due to some physical cause affecting the breathing apparatus.

Echo

False news and absurdity, to dream of an echo is a signal that you are lacking in confidence in many respects.

Eclipse

To dream of an eclipse of the Sun predicts great loss, an eclipse of the Moon is not quite as bad, but, whatever your wish is, you will not attain it.

Emerald

This indicates wealth, a rise within the World. Ancient Persians used it as a charm against the Devil, it also bestows upon the dreamer, knowledge of the future.

Emotion

To remember the emotions that were felt whilst dreaming is an essential part in helping to unravel the meaning behind the content of any dream.

Equator

This dream indicates good weather and fine crops are promised to the farmer, to others, abundance. We all wish to have this dream.

Exams

Most exam dreams begin in adolescence (which is a period marked by real anxiety about school exams for most), they can be repeated over and over throughout the dreamers life, almost always appearing again during periods of stress. The dream is usually similar in nature, turning up at an exam only to find it is not the one you prepared for, looking for the exam paper and finding it written in a foreign language or unreadable, finding out you have to sit an exam for which you have attended no classes etc. These dreams are always a strong pointer to real-life stress and an indication that this stress is a problem that must be dealt with.

Execution

A person who dreams of His or Her own execution may be very depressed and suffering from severely diminished self-esteem. Often it is a way for the dreamer to seek self-punishment.

Failure

Similar to the exam dreams, dreams of failure are linked to fears and problems in life. The dreamer may be coming to realize that what He or She is striving for within real life is in fact, impossible. The dream may also indicate the fears of the dreamer, who feels unable to admit to them.

Fairy

To dream of a Fairy is to dream of riches and independence to those who are poor, to the rich, it indicates temptation. There are many definitions of a

Falling

Dreams of falling are very common, often the dreamer dreams of falling and wakes up before hitting the ground, some culture

Fever

This is an evil dream of highly ambitious desire

Fighting

To dream of fighting is indicative of internal emotional, moral or sexual conflict on the part of the dreamer. It may well reflect the dreamers struggle for independence and or freedom from a particular situation they find themselves in.

Flies

This is a prediction of troublesome people who will scandalize the dreamer.

Flying

To dream of flying is one of release from influences that are holding you back in life, sometimes they are practical, such as, family commitments, lack of money or your creativity being stifled, particularly within your work. It also suggests repressed emotions or a lack of belief in self, for others, flying, is an indication of sexual release. Flying in your dream also signifies freedom/independence, and also the ability to take a different viewpoint of the World and other people. It is always a dream of beautiful things to come.

Frogs

To dream of a Frog is a lucky dream, it forecasts good in all situations. The Frog is a strong symbol of new life, transformation resurrection and regeneration. If the dreamer feels uneasy within a Frog dream then they should consider which aspect of their life is likely to be making them unhappy.

Gallows

Paradoxically the Gypsies saw this dream as a fortunate one; the dreamer will rise proportionately towards the height of the Gallows (Gypsy Folklore).

Garden

Gardens within a dream represent the

Ghosts

Ghosts within a dream may represent several things, either the dreamer

Gold

Gold within dreams rarely foretells untold wealth; it is more likely to represent certain things of a Metaphysical nature that one values in life. False or even tarnished Gold will stand for values not worth having. To gather up Gold and Silver indicates deceit and loss; to dream of pockets filled with Gold was the emblem of the Sun and of the goodness of God.

Grass

To dream of walking through the grass, or fields of grass, means great happiness and fortune. To dream of grasses such as sorrel lettuce etc., symbolizes grief and embarrassment. To eat the grass shows sorrow and sickness. Withered or dead grass denotes great misfortune.

Grave

Graves may indicate the dreamer coming to terms with His or Her own morality, or it may suggest some aspect within the dreamer

Guilt

Like many of the emotions we experience whilst dreaming, the guilt that a dreamer is feeling may well be guilt they have repressed, or should be felt, for the dreamer

Guitar

A dream of happiness.

Gypsies

This dream indicates a strong desire for more freedom within life. This can be freedom of the mind, physical or freedom of the Spirit.

Harvest

A dream of prosperity to the dreamer.

Headache

When one dreams they have a headache it means trouble, poverty and illness. (Gypsy Folklore.)

Heaven

A beautiful and auspicious dream, to ascent to Heaven symbolizes glory and grandeur, it could signify that you aspire to something better within your life; this may be for spiritual reasons or something as mundane as wanting or desiring a new job.

Hiding

A dreamer who hides may indeed be a dreamer who has something

Holly

To dream of Holly is a good omen, traditionally it is a symbol of Joy.

Home

To dream of Home indicates security and contentment, or it may have a much more sinister meaning, everything depends upon the experiences that the dreamer had of this Home.

Honey

A dream of prosperity for the person involved.

Horror

To have feelings of horror, like any other emotion, are genuine feelings. The dreamer should validate them, not in relation to that aspect of, or occurrence in, the life of the dreamer to which the dream symbol is alluding.

Horseshoe

A very peculiar type of dream which denotes good fortune both in business and home affairs.

Howls

To hear howls or howling within a dream is an omen of death, much is based on Gypsy Folklore.

Hydra

To see a

Ice

To dream of ice means physical or emotional coldness, it may point to a lack of love or loss of libido. The dreamer should consider His or Her life in order to understand where this coldness originates. Often it is a result of the sleeping body becoming too cold.

Idiot

To dream of becoming an

Imprisonment

The person being placed in prison is very possibly suffering from restrictions to His or Her independence within life, restrictive family relationships, guilty feelings, claustrophobic love affairs or guilt feelings, may be holding the dreamer back from gaining freedom of movement, action or thoughts.

Iron

When the dreamer is hurt with iron it signifies damage. To dream of trading in iron with strangers predicts loss and misfortune.

Ivy

This is a dream of strong friendships and trust, Ivy is a symbol of the Trinity and of the triple creative power, it also signifies loyalty and friendship. A very pleasant dream.

Journey

Dream journey

Jump

To jump from one place to another is often interpreted as a chance that has been taken or is definitely worthwhile taking in life. A jump that fails represents a fear of not succeeding or the realization that one has made a terrible error.

Justice

A fortunate dream for the one involved to have.

Kiss

A kiss given or received within a dream is seen as an acceptance or acknowledgement of something in life. To dream you kiss another goodbye can be read as the acknowledgement of a need for some type of transition in the waking life of the dreamer.

Kite

This is a dream predicting elevation in life. Should the kite string break, this predicts a sudden downfall, this dream may also represent a strong desire to escape in order to better oneself.

Knight In Shining Armour

Sadly this dream indicates the opposite to what most of us to believe to be, it predicts perils to come.

Knitting

To knit within your dream suggests that wicked talk or gossip is around you. The domestic occupation was a common one amongst the gypsies themselves.

Laces

To wear laces in your dream forecasts disappointment in some new garments that are worn.

Lamp

To carry a bright lamp denotes success; it is particularly favourable for lovers. A dim lamp means sickness, a lamp that goes out denotes death, or at least extreme danger. In Ancient symbology the lamp or flame represented the vital spark of life. Truth, righteousness and illumination are symbolic of the lamp in scriptural art.

Lance

This is a dream of trouble and tragedy, the lance is a phallic symbol and therefore this is an erotic dream.

Lilies

To dream of these flowers is a promise of happiness through virtue.

Limping

To limp within your dream predicts misfortune and often shame.

Locusts

A dream forecasting extravagance, misfortune and a short-lived happiness.

Losing

To dream of losing things may reflect some sense of loss that the dreamer is certainly feeling, for example, your childhood may now be something of the past, or a love affair may be over. The dream may indicate that a good opportunity may be, or already has been missed by the dreamer.

Love

All emotions that the dreamer feels are genuine. Was the love felt within the dream a compensation for that which is lacking in waking life : To dream of unsuccessful love is a dream telling you that you will marry and be happy, dreaming of your being with your lover, foretells a very speedy marriage.

Lying

To lie within your dream is very bad indeed, except for those that are known

Lynx

This is a dream that is warning you that you are being watched by a very keen and quick enemy.

Magician

To dream of the Magician suggests unexpected events, surprises.

Medal

When you dream of receiving medals for (example) good conduct this suggests depravity and loss of character, often this is a dream stemming from having a guilty conscience.

Medicine

When dreamt that to take it with difficulty it is an omen of physical distress.

Midwife

A dream which denotes the revelation of secrets.

Milk

To drink milk in a dream brings joy. To sell predicts disappointment in love. To dream of milking a cow predicts good fortune and abundance in life.

Miser

Similar to other dreams it pertains to money or one who hoards, it is an unfavourable omen.

Mother

To dream of your Mother (living) brings joy to the dreamer, to dream of Her dead brings only sadness and sorrow.

Mountain

To dream of such means obstacles are in your pathway, difficulties that are looming ahead, this is a feeling of

Music

To play music within your dream is a sign of self-expression, the person who has this dream may find they can suddenly play beautiful music on an instrument. Upon waking the dreamer may pick up a musical instrument to fulfill a desire to give vent to particular feelings. To dream of ravishing music signifies sudden and delightful news.

Neck

To dream of the neck is one of power, riches, honour. Imperfections or ailments of the dreamer

Nest

If the nest happens to be full of eggs it is a dream predicting profit and gain,, domestic happiness and success in love. To dream of a nest with broken eggs is distress and desolation, a feeling of hopelessness and failure.

Numbness

This is a dream telling of futile labour and discouragement.

Nurse

To have this dream tells of how the nurse is a symbol of caring, which is a dream tended to by a nurse may be compensation for love that is lacking in waking life.

Nutmeg

When you dream that you eat one this predicts sickness, to grate nutmeg is indicative of victory despite many obstacles.

Oasis

An Oasis within a dream symbolizes an emotion, one that has been missing within the dreamer

Obscurity

When one dreams that the Sun is obscure from vision, this means damage is coming to your reputation, to dream that the Moon is obscured affects your life in a lesser fashion.

Ocean

To dream of the Ocean is very common, it was the ancient symbol of life. Whilst dreaming if the ocean is calm, all is good, if stormy, illness, a smooth ocean shows accomplishments both in life and in love.

Ogres

Dreaming of an Ogre will often be an expression of the dreamer

Oysters

To dream of opening and eating an oyster shows great hunger, or that you earn your living through great pain and difficulty.

Packing

Packing shows desire for change, getting away from old situations and emotions, fulfilling a strong need for freedom. If the case is hard for the dreamer to close then they are mentally unprepared as yet for this change.

Padlock

The padlock tells of mysteries that must be solved, it is also a Christian symbol for silence.

Pansy

To dream of a Pansy (flowers), foretells of a constant sweet-heart, also great poverty.

Paradise

This is a fortunate dream and to each dreamer it represents his or her desire and calling in life.

Photographs

A photo of the past within a dream represents the dreamers image of His/Her past, whilst a photo of the dreamer themselves portrays their own self-image.

Pit

A pit within a dream foretells the decline of business, a possible descent into distress and want. For the dreamer to fall into a pit shows mis-fortune and tragedy.

Popcorn

To have a dream of popcorn suggests a very pleasant surprise is in store.

Pyramid

This is a dream of great wealth; to dream you are on top of one predicts great achievement.

Quarrel

Dreams of quarrelling or fighting generally show that the dreamer is going through an internal struggle.

Quay

This is a dream that promise

Railway

This is symbolic of the dreamer

Recurring Dreams

It is very common to have these type of dreams, it often starts when young and continues, even though they may not be the same they are always very similar. They point to situations, events, emotions etc. Your reaction to these dreams will alter as the years go by. How you react is very important to allow changes to occur and for the dreams to stop.

Ring

For a Woman to dream of a ring (the breakage of her Wedding Ring) signifies the death of her husband in most cases. If another draws a ring on the dreamer

River

To dream of a broad, muddy Rapid River suggests difficulties. A calm and clear river is one of peace and prosperity.

Scorpions

This is a dream of misfortune through secret enemies. The Scorpion is an ancient symbol of war.

Scythe

To dream of the Scythe means the loss of a good friend.

Seed

Seeds represent parts of the human reproductive process, the sperm, and the egg. Much like Acorns, seeds can symbolize potential, either within people or situations.

Tea

To dream of tea your finances are tied up.

Telephone

The dream will foretell the dreamer what is done with them, it tells of how the person communicates.