Meaning of a Dream: Meaning of Dreams from; Birds to Blows

By Gustavus Hindman Miller

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 :

Birds

• It is a favorable dream to see birds of beautiful plumage. A wealthy and happy partner is near if a woman has dreams of this nature.
• Moulting and songless birds, denotes merciless and inhuman treatment of the outcast and fallen by people of wealth.
• To see a wounded bird, is fateful of deep sorrow caused by erring offspring.
• To see flying birds, is a sign of prosperity to the dreamer. All disagreeable environments will vanish before the wave of prospective good.
• To catch birds, is not at all bad. To hear them speak, is owning one's inability to perform tasks that demand great clearness of perception.
• To kill than with a gun, is disaster from dearth of harvest.

Bird's Nest

To see an empty bird's nest, denotes gloom and a dull outlook for business. With eggs in the nest, good results will follow all engagements. If young ones are in the nest, it denotes successful journeys and satisfactory dealings. If they are lonely and deserted, sorrow, and folly of yours will cause you anxiety.

Birth

• For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child, great joy and a handsome legacy is foretold.
• For a single woman, loss of virtue and abandonment by her lover.

Birthday

• To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the young, to the old, long trouble and desolation.

Birthday Presents

• Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments. Working people will advance in their trades.
• Giving birthday presents, denotes small deferences, if given at a fe^te or reception.

Biscuits

• Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured over silly disputes.

Bishop

• To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries, caused from delving into intricate subjects.
• To the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur loss of good money.
• For one to see a bishop in his dreams, hard work will be his patrimony, with chills and ague as attendant. If you meet the approval of a much admired bishop, you will be successful in your undertakings in love or business.

Bite

• This dream omens ill.
• It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing. You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy.

Blackberries

• To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky. Eating them denotes losses.

Blackboard

• To see in your dreams writing in white chalk on a blackboard, denotes ill tidings of some person prostrated with some severe malady, or your financial security will be swayed by the panicky condition of commerce.

Blacksmith

• To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will soon work to your advantage.

Bladder

• To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business if you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies.
• To see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations will fail to give you much comfort.

Blanket

• Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled. If new and white, success where failure is feared, and a fatal sickness will be avoided through unseen agencies.

Blasphemy [22]

• Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed friendship will do you great harm.
• To dream you are cursing yourself, means evil fortune. To dream you are cursed by others, signifies relief through affection and prosperity.
• The interpretation of this dream here given is not satisfactory.
• [22] See Profanity.

Bleating

• To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you will have new duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones.

Bleeding

• To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious reports about you. Fortune will turn against you.

Blind

• To dream of being blind, denotes a sudden change from affluence to almost abject poverty.
• To see others blind, denotes that some worthy person will call on you for aid.

Blindfold

• For a woman to dream that she is blindfolded, means that disturbing elements are rising around to distress and trouble her. Disappointment will be felt by others through her.

Blind Man's Buff

• To dream that you are playing at blind man's buff, denotes that you are about to engage in some weak enterprise which will likely humiliate you, besides losing money for you.

Blood

• Blood-stained garments, indicate enemies who seek to tear down a successful career that is opening up before you.
• The dreamer should beware of strange friendships.
• To see blood flowing from a wound, physical ailments and worry. Bad business caused from disastrous dealings with foreign combines.
• To see blood on your hands, immediate bad luck, if not careful of your person and your own affairs.

Blood Stone

• To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate in your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift, denotes she will suffer estrangement from one friend, but will, by this, gain one more worthy of her.

Blossoms

• To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time of pleasing prosperity is nearing you.

Blows

• Denotes injury to yourself. If you receive a blow, brain trouble will threaten you.
• If you defend yourself, a rise in business will follow.

Blotting Paper

• To dream of using blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived into the betrayal of secrets which will seriously involve a friend.
• To see worn blotting paper, denotes continued disagreements in the home or among friends.

For more dream interpretations, see: Meaning of Dreams

For more about dreams, see: Dreams.

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