Dreams A-Z (4 page)

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.

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

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.

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.

Celestial Signs 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.

See Illumination.

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.

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.

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.

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 sweetheart 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.

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

To fall or see others fall from one, denotes displacement from high positions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chilblains To dream of suffering with chilblains, denotes that you will be driven into some bad dealing through over anxiety 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

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 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.

See Crockery.