The Dictionary of Dreams (40 page)

If you see others afflicted thus, you will meet discouraging

prospects and love will turn into indifference.

Letter
.

To dream that you see a registered letter, foretells that some money matters will disrupt long-established relations.

For a young woman to dream that she receives such a letter,

intimates that she will be offered a competency, but it will

not be on strictly legal, or moral grounds; others may play

towards her a dishonorable part.

To the lover, this bears heavy presentments of disagreeable mating.

His sweetheart will covet other gifts than his own.

To dream of an anonymous letter, denotes that you will receive injury from an unsuspected source.

To write one, foretells that you will be jealous of a rival,

whom you admit to be your superior.

To dream of getting letters bearing unpleasant news, denotes difficulties or illness. If the news is of a joyous character, you will have many things to be thankful for. If the letter is affectionate, but is written on green, or colored, paper, you will be slighted in love and business.

Despondency will envelop you. Blue ink, denotes constancy and affection, also bright fortune.

Red colors in a letter, imply estrangements through suspicion and jealousy, but this may be overcome by wise maneuvering of the suspected party.

If a young woman dreams that she receives a letter from her lover and places it near her heart, she will be worried very much by a good-looking rival.

Truthfulness is often rewarded with jealousy.

If you fail to read the letter, you will lose something either

in a business or social way.

Letters nearly always bring worry.

To have your letter intercepted, rival enemies are working to defame you.

To dream of trying to conceal a letter from your sweetheart or wife, intimates that you are interested in unworthy occupations.

To dream of a letter with a black border, signifies distress

and the death of some relative.

To receive a letter written on black paper with white ink,

denotes that gloom and disappointment will assail you, and friendly

interposition will render small relief. If the letter passes between husband and wife, it means separation under sensational charges.

If lovers, look for quarrels and threats of suicide.

To business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.

To dream that you write a letter, denotes that you will be hasty

in condemning some one on suspicion, and regrets will follow.

A torn letter, indicates that hopeless mistakes may ruin your reputation.

To receive a letter by hand, denotes that you are acting ungenerously towards your companions or sweetheart, and you also are not upright in your dealings.

To dream often of receiving a letter from a friend, foretel s his arrival, or you will hear from him by letter or otherwise.

Letter-carrier
.

If you dream of a letter-carrier coming with your letters, you will soon receive news of an unwelcome and an unpleasant character.

To hear his whistle, denotes the unexpected arrival of a visitor.

If he passes without your mail, disappointment and sadness will befall you.

If you give him letters to mail, you will suffer injury through

envy or jealousy.

To converse with a letter-carrier, you will implicate yourself

in some scandalous proceedings.

Letter-file
.

To see a letter-file in your dreams, is significant of important news, which will cause you an irksome journey. For a woman, this dream implies distressful news and unfaithful friends.

Lettuce
.

To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy some greatly desired good, after an unimportant embarrassment.

If you eat lettuce, illness will separate you from your lover or companion, or perhaps it may be petty jealousy.

For a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends she will be the cause of her own early sickness or death.

To gather it, denotes your superabundant sensitiveness,

and that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigated

distress and pain.

To buy lettuce, denotes that you will court your own downfall.

Liar
.

To dream of thinking people are liars, foretells you will lose

faith in some scheme which you had urgently put forward.

For some one to call you a liar, means you will have vexations

through deceitful persons.

For a woman to think her sweetheart a liar, warns her that her unbecoming conduct is likely to lose her a valued friend.

Library
.

To dream that you are in a library, denotes that you will grow

discontented with your environments and associations and seek

companionship in study and the exploration of ancient customs.

To find yourself in a library for other purpose than study,

foretells that your conduct will deceive your friends, and where

you would have them believe that you had literary aspirations,

you will find illicit assignations.

Lice
.

A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress.

It often implies offensive ailments.

Lice on stock, foretells famine and loss.

To have lice on your body, denotes that you will conduct yourself

unpleasantly with your acquaintances.

To dream of catching lice, foretells sickness, and that you

will cultivate morbidity.

License
.

To dream of a license, is an omen of disputes and loss.

Married women will exasperate your cheerfulness. For a woman

to see a marriage license, foretells that she will soon enter

unpleasant bonds, which will humiliate her pride.

Life-boat
.

To dream of being in a life-boat, denotes escape from threatened evil.

To see a life-boat sinking, friends will contribute to your distress.

To be lost in a life-boat, you will be overcome with trouble,

in which your friends will be included to some extent.

If you are saved, you will escape a great calamity.

Life-insurance Man
.

To see life-insurance men in a dream, means that you are soon

to meet a stranger who will contribute to your business interests,

and change in your home life is foreshadowed, as interests

will be mutual.

If they appear distorted or unnatural, the dream is more

unfortunate than good.

Light
.

If you dream of light, success will attend you. To dream of weird light, or if the light goes out, you will be disagreeably surprised by some undertaking resulting in nothing.

To see a dim light, indicates partial success.

Lighthouse
.

If you see a lighthouse through a storm, difficulties and grief will assail you, but they will disperse before prosperity and happiness.

To see a lighthouse from a placid sea, denotes calm joys

and congenial friends.

Lightning
.

Lightning in your dreams, foreshadows happiness and prosperity

of short duration.

If the lightning strikes some object near you, and you feel

the shock, you will be damaged by the good fortune of a friend,

or you may be worried by gossipers and scandalmongers.

To see livid lightning parting black clouds, sorrow and difficulties will follow close on to fortune.

If it strikes you, unexpected sorrows will overwhelm you in business or love.

To see the lightning above your head, heralds the advent of joy and gain.

To see lightning in the south, fortune will hide herself from you for awhile.

If in the southwest, luck will come your way. In the west,

your prospects will be brighter than formally. In the north,

obstacles will have to be removed before your prospects will

brighten up. If in the east, you will easily win favors and fortune.

Lightning from dark and ominous-looking clouds, is always

a forerunner of threats, of loss and of disappointments.

Business men should stay close to business, and women near

their husbands or mothers; children and the sick should be

looked after closely.

Lightning-rod
.

To see a lightning-rod, denotes that threatened destruction to some

cherished work will confront you. To see one change into a serpent, foretells enemies will succeed in their schemes against you.

If the lightning strikes one, there will be an accident or sudden

news to give you sorrow.

If you are having one put up, it is a warning to beware how you begin a new enterprise, as you will likely be overtaken by disappointment.

To have them taken down, you will change your plans and

thereby further your interests. To see many lightning rods,

indicates a variety of misfortunes.

Lily
.

To dream of a lily, denotes much chastisement through illness and death.

To see lilies growing with their rich foliage, denotes early marriage to the young and subsequent separation through death.

To see little children among the flowers, indicates sickness

and fragile constitutions to these little ones.

For a young woman to dream of admiring, or gathering, lilies,

denotes much sadness coupled with joy, as the one she loves

will have great physical suffering, if not an early dissolution.

If she sees them withered, sorrow is even nearer than she

could have suspected.

To dream that you breathe the fragrance of lilies, denotes that sorrow will purify and enhance your mental qualities.

Lime
.

To dream of lime, foretells that disaster will prostrate you for a time, but you will revive to greater and richer prosperity than before.

Lime-kiln
.

To dream of a lime-kiln, foretells the immediate future holds

no favor for speculations in love or business

Limes
.

To dream of eating limes, foretells continued sickness and adverse straits.

Limp
.[114]

To dream that you limp in your walk, denotes that a small worry will unexpectedly confront you, detracting much from your enjoyment.

To see others limping, signifies that you will be naturally offended at the conduct of a friend. Small failures attend this dream.

[114] See Cripple and Lamed.

Linen
.

To see linen in your dream, augurs prosperity and enjoyment.

If a person appears to you dressed in linen garments, you will shortly be the recipient of joyful tidings in the nature of an inheritance.

If you are apparelled in clean, fine linen, your fortune and fullest enjoyment in life is assured. If it be soiled, sorrow and ill luck will be met with occasionally, mingled with the good in your life.

Linseed Oil
.

To see linseed oil in your dreams, denotes your impetuous extravagance will be checked by the kindly interference of a friend.

Lion
.

To dream of a lion, signifies that a great force is driving you.

If you subdue the lion, you will be victorious in any engagement.

If it overpowers you, then you will be open to the successful

attacks of enemies.

To see caged lions, denotes that your success depends upon your ability to cope with opposition.

To see a man controlling a lion in its cage, or out denotes

success in business and great mental power. You will be favorably

regarded by women.

To see young lions, denotes new enterprises, which will bring

success if properly attended.

For a young woman to dream of young lions, denotes new and fascinating lovers.

For a woman to dream that she sees Daniel in the lions' den, signifies that by her intellectual qualifications and personal magnetism she will win fortune and lovers to her highest desire.

To hear the roar of a lion, signifies unexpected advancement

and preferment with women.

To see a lion's head over you, showing his teeth by snarls,

you are threatened with defeat in your upward rise to power.

To see a lion's skin, denotes a rise to fortune and happiness.

To ride one, denotes courage and persistency in surmounting difficulties.

To dream you are defending your children from a lion with a

pen-knife, foretells enemies will threaten to overpower you,

and will well nigh succeed if you allow any artfulness to persuade

you for a moment from duty and business obligations.

Lips
.

To dream of thick, unsightly lips, signifies disagreeable encounters, hasty decision, and ill temper in the marriage relation.

Full, sweet, cherry lips, indicates harmony and affluence.

To a lover, it augurs reciprocation in love, and fidelity.

Thin lips, signifies mastery of the most intricate subjects.

Sore, or swollen lips, denotes privations and unhealthful desires.

Liquor
.

To dream of buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon which you have no legal claim If you sell it, you will be criticised for niggardly benevolence.

To drink some, you will come into doubtful possession of wealth,

but your generosity will draw around you convivial friends,

and women will seek to entrance and hold you.

To see liquor in barrels, denotes prosperity, but unfavorable

tendency toward making home pleasant.

If in bottles, fortune will appear in a very tangible form.

For a woman to dream of handling, or drinking liquor,

foretells for her a happy Bohemian kind of existence.

She will be good natured but shallow minded. To treat others,

she will be generous to rivals, and the indifference of lovers