The Dictionary of Dreams (17 page)

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.

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 unal oyed joys.

Chariot
.

To dream of riding in a chariot, foretells that favorable opportunities will present themselves resulting in your good if rightly used by you.

To fall or see others fall from one, denotes displacement

from high positions.

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.

Checkers
.

To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties

of a serious character, and strange people will come into your life, working you harm.

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, foretel s 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.

For a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them, she will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty.

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.

Chilblain
.

To dream of suffering with chilblains, denotes that you will be driven into some bad dealing through over anxity{sic} 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 robust health, but trifles of another nature may harass her.

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,

foretel s 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
.[35]

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.

[35] See Crockery.

Chocolate
.

To dream of chocolate, denotes you will provide abundantly

for those who are dependent on you. To see chocolate candy,

indicates agreeable companions and employments.

If sour, illness or other disappointments will follow.

To drink chocolate, foretells you will prosper after a short

period of unfavorable reverses.

Choir
.

To dream of a choir, foretells you may expect cheerful surroundings

to replace gloom and discontent. For a young woman to sing in a choir, denotes she will be miserable over the attention paid others by her lover.

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.