Dream Symbols Interpretation: Dream Symbols Interpretation

By Gustavus

Please note that the exact meaning of a dream is always individual, get input from different sources and then use your intuition. Please note that all words in grey are hyperlinked to an archive with articles related to that word. This can be very valuable if you want to have more inspiration and input for your dream interpretation.

Meaning of Dreams :

Dropsy

• To dream of being afflicted with the dropsy, denotes illness for a time, but from which you will recover with renewed vigor. To see others thus afflicted, denotes that you will hear from the absent shortly, and have tidings of their good health.

Drouth

• This is-an evil dream, denoting warring disputes between nations, and much bloodshed therefrom. Shipwrecks and land disasters will occur, and families will quarrel and separate; sickness will work damage also. Your affairs will go awry, as well.

Drowning, To Drown, Partner Drowned, Drowning Partner

• To dream of drowning, denotes loss of property and life; but if you are rescued, you will rise from your present position to one of wealth and honor.
• To see others drowning, and you go to their relief, signifies that you will aid your friend to high places, and will bring deserved happiness to yourself.
• For a young woman to see her sweetheart drowned, denotes her bereavement by death.

Drum, Beating of a Drum, See a Drum

• To hear the muffled beating of a drum, denotes that some absent friend is in distress and calls on you for aid.
• To see a drum, foretells amiability of character and a great aversion to quarrels and dissensions. It is an omen of prosperity to the sailor, the farmer and the tradesman alike.

Drunk , Alcohol, Wine, Spirit, Liquor, Liquors, Drunk on Wine, Drunkenness, Heavy Drinking

• This is an unfavorable dream if you are drunk on heavy liquors, indicating profligacy and loss of employment. You will be disgraced by stooping to forgery or theft.
• If drunk on wine, you will be fortunate in trade and love-making, and will scale exalted heights in literary pursuits. This dream is always the bearer of aesthetic experiences.
• To see others in a drunken condition, foretells for you, and probably others, unhappy states.
• Drunkenness in all forms is unreliable as a good dream. All classes are warned by this dream to shift their thoughts into more healthful channels.

Ducks, Wild Ducks, Duck Wild Duck, Hunting Ducks, Hunt Ducks, Flying Duck, Flying Ducks

• To dream of seeing wild ducks on a clear stream of water, signifies fortunate journeys, perhaps across the sea. White ducks around a farm, indicate thrift and a fine harvest.
• To hunt ducks, denotes displacement in employment in the carrying out of plans.
• To see them shot, signifies that enemies are meddling with your private affairs.
• To see them flying, foretells a brighter future for you. It also denotes marriage, and children in the new home.

Duet, Music, Song, Singing

• To dream of hearing a duet played, denotes a peaceful and even existence for lovers. No quarrels, as is customary in this sort of thing. Business people carry on a mild rivalry. To musical people, this denotes competition and wrangling for superiority.
• To hear a duet sung, is unpleasant tidings from the absent; but this will not last, as some new pleasure will displace the unpleasantness.

Dulcimer

• To dream of a dulcimer, denotes that the highest wishes in life will be attained by exalted qualities of mind. To women, this is significant of a life free from those petty jealousies which usually make women unhappy.

Dumb, Being Dumb

• To dream of being dumb, indicates your inability to persuade others into your mode of thinking, and using them for your profit by your glibness of tongue. To the dumb, it denotes false friends.

Dun

• To dream that you receive a dun, warns you to look after your affairs and correct all tendency towards neglect of business and love.

Dungeon

• To dream of being in a dungeon, foretells for you struggles with the vital affairs of life but by wise dealing you will disenthrall yourself of obstacles and the designs of enemies. For a woman this is a dark foreboding; by her wilful indiscretion she will lose her position among honorable people.
• To see a dungeon lighted up, portends that you are threatened with entanglements of which your better judgment warns you.

Dunghill

• To dream of a dunghill, you will see profits coming in through the most unexpected sources. To the farmer this is a lucky dream, indicating fine seasons and abundant products from soil and stock. For a young woman, it denotes that she will unknowingly marry a man of great wealth.

Dusk

• This is a dream of sadness; it portends an early decline and unrequited hopes. Dark outlook for trade and pursuits of any nature is prolonged by this dream.

Dust, Covered by Dust, Dusty

• To dream of dust covering you, denotes that you will be slightly injured in business by the failure of others. For a young woman, this denotes that she will be set aside by her lover for a newer flame. If you free yourself of the dust by using judicious measures, you will clear up the loss.

Dwarf, Dwarfed

• This is a very favorable dream. If the dwarf is well formed and pleasing in appearance, it omens you will never be dwarfed in mind or stature. Health and good constitution will admit of your engaging in many profitable pursuits both of mind and body.
• To see your friends dwarfed, denotes their health, and you will have many pleasures through them.
• Ugly and hideous dwarfs, always forebodes distressing states.

Dye, Dyeing of Cloth

• To see the dyeing of cloth or garments in process, your bad or good luck depends on the color. Blues, reds and gold, indicate prosperity; black and white, indicate sorrow in all forms.

Dying, Death, See Others Dying Dying Animals

• To dream of dying, foretells that you are threatened with evil from a source that has contributed to your former advancement and enjoyment.
• To see others dying, forebodes general ill luck to you and to your friends.
• To dream that you are going to die, denotes that unfortunate inattention to your affairs will depreciate their value. Illness threatens to damage you also.
• To see animals in the throes of death, denotes escape from evil influences if the animal be wild or savage.
• It is an unlucky dream to see domestic animals dying or in agony.
• [As these events of good or ill approach you they naturally assume these forms of agonizing death, to impress you more fully with the joyfulness or the gravity of the situation you are about to enter on awakening to material responsibilities, to aid you in the mastery of self which is essential to meeting all conditions with calmness and determination.]
• [60] See Death.

Dynamite, Explosives

• To see dynamite in a dream, is a sign of approaching change and the expanding of one's affairs. To be frightened by it, indicates that a secret enemy is at work against you, and if you are not careful of your conduct he will disclose himself at an unexpected and helpless moment.

Dynamo

• To dream of a dynamo, omens successful enterprises if attention is shown to details of business. One out of repair, shows you are nearing enemies who will involve you in trouble.

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