Dream Dictionary: Dream Dictionary on Dreams; Cholera to Clock

By Gustavus Hindman Miller

Dream Dictionary

Cholera

• To dream of this dread disease devastating the country, portends sickness of virulent type will rage and many disappointments will follow.
• To dream that you are attacked by it, denotes your own sickness.

Christ

• To dream of beholding Christ, the young child, worshiped by the wise men, denotes many peaceful days, full of wealth and knowledge, abundant with joy, and content.
• If in the garden of the Gethsemane, sorrowing adversity will fill your soul, great longings for change and absent objects of love will be felt.
• To see him in the temple scourging the traders, denotes that evil enemies will be defeated and honest endeavors will prevail.

Christmas Tree

• To dream of a Christmas tree, denotes joyful occasions and auspicious fortune. To see one dismantled, foretells some painful incident will follow occasions of festivity.

Chrysanthemum

• To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss and much perplexity; colored ones, betokens pleasant engagements.
• To see them in bouquets, denotes that love will be offered you, but a foolish ambition will cause you to put it aside. To pass down an avenue of white chrysanthemums, with here and there a yellow one showing among the white, foretells a strange sense of loss and sadness, from which the sensibilities will expand and take on new powers. While looking on these white flowers as you pass, and you suddenly feel your spirit leave your body and a voice shouts aloud ``Glory to God, my Creator,'' foretells that a crisis is pending in your near future. If some of your friends pass out, and others take up true ideas in connection with spiritual and earthly needs, you will enjoy life in its deepest meaning. Often death is near you in these dreams.

Church [36]

• To dream of seeing a church in the distance, denotes disappointment in pleasures long anticipated.
• To enter one wrapt in gloom, you will participate in a funeral. Dull prospects of better times are portended.

Churchyard

• To dream of walking in a churchyard, if in winter, denotes that you are to have a long and bitter struggle with poverty, and you will reside far from the home of your childhood, and friends will be separated from you; but if you see the signs of springtime, you will walk up in into pleasant places and enjoy the society of friends.
• For lovers to dream of being in a churchyard means they will never marry each other, but will see others fill their places.

Churning

• To dream of churning, you will have difficult tasks set you, but by diligence and industry you will accomplish them and be very prosperous. To the farmer, it denotes profit from a plenteous harvest; to a young woman, it denotes a thrifty and energetic husband.

Cider

• To dream of cider, denotes fortune may be won by you if your time is not squandered upon material pleasure. To see people drinking it, you will be under the influence of unfaithful friends.

Cipher

• To dream of reading cipher, indicates that you are interested in literary researches, and by constant study you will become well acquainted with the habits and lives of the ancients.

Circle

• To dream of a circle, denotes that your affairs will deceive you in their proportions of gain. For a young woman to dream of a circle, warns her of indiscreet involvement to the exclusion of marriage.

Cistern

• To dream of a cistern, denotes you are in danger of trespassing upon the pleasures and rights of your friends. To draw from one, foretells that you will enlarge in your pastime and enjoyment in a manner which may be questioned by propriety.
• To see an empty one, foretells despairing change from happiness to sorrow.

City

• To dream that you are in a strange city, denotes you will have sorrowful occasion to change your abode or mode of living.

City Council

• To dream of a city council, foretells that your interests will clash with public institutions and there will be discouraging outlooks for you.

City Hall

• To dream of a city hall, denotes contentions and threatened law suits.
• To a young woman this dream is a foreboding of unhappy estrangement from her lover by her failure to keep virtue inviolate.

Clams

• To dream of clams, denotes you will have dealings with an obstinate but honest person. To eat them, foretells you will enjoy another's prosperity.
• For a young woman to dream of eating baked clams with her sweetheart, foretells that she will enjoy his money as well as his confidence.

Clay

• To dream of clay, denotes isolation of interest and probable insolvency. To dig in a clay bank, foretells you will submit to extraordinary demands of enemies. If you dig in an ash bank and find clay, unfortunate surprises will combat progressive enterprises or new work. Your efforts are likely to be misdirected after this dream.
• Women will find this dream unfavorable in love, social and business states, and misrepresentations will overwhelm them.

Claret

• To dream of drinking claret, denotes you will come under the influence of ennobling association. To dream of seeing broken bottles of claret, portends you will be induced to commit immoralities by the false persuasions of deceitful persons.

Claret Cup and Punch

• To dream of claret cup or punch, foretells that you will be much pleased with the attention shown you by new acquaintances.

Clarionet

• To dream of a claironet, foretells that you will indulge in frivolity beneath your usual dignity. {I}f it is broken, you will incur the displeasure of a close friend.

Clairvoyance

• To dream of being a clairvoyant and seeing yourself in the future, denotes signal changes in your present occupation, followed by a series of unhappy conflicts with designing people.
• To dream of visiting a clairvoyant, foretells unprosperous commercial states and unhappy unions.

Clergyman [37]

• To dream that you send for a clergyman to preach a funeral sermon, denotes that you will vainly strive against sickness and to ward off evil influences, but they will prevail in spite of your earnest endeavors.
• If a young woman marries a clergyman in her dream, she will be the object of much mental distress, and the wayward hand of fortune will lead her into the morass of adversity.
• [37] See Minister.

Climbing [38]

• To dream of climbing up a hill or mountain and reaching the top, you will overcome the most formidable obstacles between you and a prosperous future; but if you should fail to reach the top, your dearest plans will suffer being wrecked.
• To climb a ladder to the last rung, you will succeed in business; but if the ladder breaks, you will be plunged into unexpected straits, and accidents may happen to you.
• To see yourself climbing the side of a house in some mysterious way in a dream, and to have a window suddenly open to let you in, foretells that you will make or have made extraordinary ventures against the approbation of friends, but success will eventually crown your efforts, though there will be times when despair will almost enshroud you.
• [38] See Ascend Hill and Mountain.

Clock

• To dream that you see a clock, denotes danger from a foe. To hear one strike, you will receive unpleasant news. The death of some friend is implied.

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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