Dream Dictionary: Dream Dictionary on Dreams; Cathedral to Chapel

By Gustavus Hindman Miller

Dream Dictionary

Cathedral

• To dream of a wast cathedral with its domes rising into space, denotes that you will be possessed with an envious nature and unhappy longings for the unattainable, both mental and physical; but if you enter you will be elevated in life, having for your companions the learned and wise.

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 love with a villain and will suffer the loss of true friends.

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.

Celestial Signs [34]

• 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.
• [34] See Illumination.

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.

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.
• For young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead foreshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends, but will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert.
• 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.

Chair Maker

• To dream of seeing a chair maker, denotes that worry from apparently pleasant labor will confront you.

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.

Chambermaid

• To see a chambermaid, denotes bad fortune and decided changes will be made.
• 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 swetheart{sic} 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.

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.

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From "10 000 Dreams Interpreted - What's In A Dream; Dreams and Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations" by Gustavus Hindman Miller