The Dictionary of Dreams (49 page)

Peas
.

Dreaming of eating peas, augurs robust health and the accumulation of wealth.

Much activity is indicated for farmers and their women folks.

To see them growing, denotes fortunate enterprises.

To plant them, denotes that your hopes are well grounded and they

will be realized.

To gather them, signifies that your plans will culminate in good and you will enjoy the fruits of your labors.

To dream of canned peas, denotes that your brightest hopes

will be enthralled in uncertainties for a short season,

but they will finally be released by fortune.

To see dried peas, denotes that you are overtaxing your health.

To eat dried peas, foretells that you will, after much success,

suffer a slight decrease in pleasure or wealth.

Pebbles
.

For a young woman to dream of a pebble-strewn walk, she will be vexed with many rivals and find that there are others with charms that attract besides her own. She who dreams of pebbles is selfish and should cultivate leniency towards others' faults.

Pecans
.

To dream of eating this appetizing nut, you will see one of your dearest plans come to full fruition, and seeming failure prove a prosperous source of gain.

To see them growing among leaves, signifies a long, peaceful existence.

Failure in love or business will follow in proportion as the pecan is decayed.

If they are difficult to crack and the fruit is small, you will succeed after much trouble and expense, but returns will be meagre.

Pelican
.

To dream of a pelican, denotes a mingling of disappointments with successes.

To catch one, you will be able to overcome disappointing influences.

To kill one, denotes that you will cruelly set aside the rights of others.

To see them flying, you are threatened with changes, which will impress you with ideas of uncertainty as to good.

Pen
.

To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being

led into serious complications by your love of adventure.

If the pen refuses to write, you will be charged with a serious

breach of morality.

Penalties
.

To dream that you have penalties imposed upon you, foretel s that you will have duties that will rile you and find you rebellious.

To pay a penalty, denotes sickness and financial loss.

To escape the payment, you will be victor in some contest.

Pencil
.

To dream of pencils, denotes favorable occupations.

For a young woman to write with one, foretells she will

be fortunate in marriage, if she does not rub out words;

in that case, she will be disappointed in her lover.

Penitentiary
.

To dream of a penitentiary, denotes you will have engagements

which will, unfortunately, result in your loss. To be an inmate

of one, foretel s discontent in the home and failing business.

To escape from one, you will overcome difficult obstacles.

Penny
.

To dream of pennies, denotes unsatisfactory pursuits.

Business will suffer, and lovers and friends will complain

of the smallness of affection.

To lose them, signifies small deference and failures.

To find them, denotes that prospects will advance to your improvement.

To count pennies, foretells that you will be business-like and economical.

Pension
.

To dream of drawing a pension, foretells that you will be aided

in your labors by friends.

To fail in your application for a pension, denotes that you will lose in an undertaking and suffer the loss of friendships.

People
.[152]

[152] See Crowd.

Pepper
.

To dream of pepper burning your tongue, foretells that you will suffer from your acquaintances through your love of gossip.

To see red pepper growing, foretells for you a thrifty and an independent partner in the marriage state.

To see piles of red pepper pods, signifies that you will aggressively maintain your rights.

To grind black pepper, denotes that you will be victimized by the wiles of ingenious men or women. To see it in stands on the table, omens sharp reproaches or quarrels.

For a young woman to put it on her food, foretells that she will be deceived by her friends.

Peppermint
.

To dream of peppermint, denotes pleasant entertainments

and interesting affairs.

To see it growing, denotes that you will participate in some pleasure in which there will be a dash of romance.

To enjoy drinks in which there is an effusion of peppermint, denotes that you will enjoy assignations with some attractive and fascinating person.

To a young woman, this dream warns her against seductive pleasures.

Perfume
.

To dream of inhaling perfume, is an augury of happy incidents.

For you to perfume your garments and person, denotes that you

will seek and obtain adulation.

Being oppressed by it to intoxication, denotes that excesses in joy

will impair your mental qualities.

To spill perfume, denotes that you will lose something which

affords you pleasure.

To break a bottle of perfume, foretel s that your most cherished

wishes and desires will end disastrously, even while they promise

a happy culmination.

To dream that you are distilling perfume, denotes that your employments and associations will be of the pleasantest character.

For a young woman to dream of perfuming her bath, foretells

ecstatic happenings. If she receives it as a gift from a man,

she will experience fascinating, but dangerous pleasures.

Perspiration
.

To dream that you are in a perspiration, foretells that you

will come out of some difficulty, which has caused much gossip,

with new honors.

Pest
.

To dream of being worried over a pest of any nature, foretells that disturbing elements will prevail in your immediate future.

To see others thus worried, denotes that you will be annoyed

by some displeasing development.

Petticoat
.

To dream of seeing new petticoats, denotes that pride in your belongings will make you an object of raillery among your acquaintances.

To see them soiled or torn, portends that your reputation will be

in great danger.

If a young woman dream that she wears silken, or clean, petticoats,

it denotes that she will have a doting, but manly husband.

If she suddenly perceives that she has left off her petticoat

in dressing, it portends much ill luck and disappointment.

To see her petticoat falling from its place while she is

at some gathering, or while walking, she will have trouble

in retaining her lover, and other disappointments may follow.

Pewter
.[153]

To dream of pewter, foretells straitened circumstances.

[153] See Dishes.

Phantom
.[154]

To dream that a phantom pursues you, foretells strange

and disquieting experiences.

To see a phantom fleeing from you, foretells that trouble

will assume smaller proportions.

[154] See Ghost.

Pheasant
.

Dreaming of pheasants, omens good fellowship among your friends.

To eat one, signifies that the jealousy of your wife will cause

you to forego friendly intercourse with your friends.

To shoot them, denotes that you will fail to sacrifice one selfish pleasure for the comfort of friends.

Phosphorus
.

To dream of seeing phosphorus, is indicative of evanescent joys.

For a young woman, it foretells a brilliant but brief success with admirers.

Photography
.

If you see photographs in your dreams, it is a sign of approaching deception.

If you receive the photograph of your lover, you are warned

that he is not giving you his undivided loyalty, while he tries

to so impress you.

For married people to dream of the possession of other persons'

photographs, foretells unwelcome disclosures of one's conduct.

To dream that you are having your own photograph made, foretells that you will unwarily cause yourself and others' trouble.

Physician
.

For a young woman to dream of a physician, denotes that she

is sacrificing her beauty in engaging in frivolous pastimes.

If she is sick and thus dreams, she will have sickness or worry,

but will soon overcome them, unless the physician appears very anxious, and then her trials may increase, ending in loss and sorrow.

Piano
.

To dream of seeing a piano, denotes some joyful occasion.

To hear sweet and voluptuous harmony from a piano,

signals success and health. If discordant music is being played,

you will have many exasperating matters to consider.

Sad and plaintive music, foretells sorrowful tidings.

To find your piano broken and out of tune, portends dissatisfaction

with your own accomplishments and disappointment in the failure

of your friends or children to win honors.

To see an old-fashioned piano, denotes that you have, in trying moments, neglected the advices and opportunities of the past, and are warned not to do so again.

For a young woman to dream that she is executing difficult,

but entrancing music, she will succeed in winning an indifferent

friend to be a most devoted and loyal lover.

Pickaxe
.

To dream of a pickaxe, denotes a relentless enemy is working to overthrow you socially. A broken one, implies disaster to all your interests.

Pickles
.

To dream of pickles, denotes that you will follow worthless pursuits if you fail to call energy and judgment to your aid.

For a young woman to dream of eating pickles, foretells an unambitious career.

To dream of pickles, denotes vexation in love, but final triumph.

For a young woman to dream that she is eating them, or is hungry

for them, foretells she will find many rivals, and will be overcome

unless she is careful of her private affairs. Impure pickles,

indicate disappointing engagements and love quarrels.

Pickpocket
.

To dream of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed

in harassing and causing you loss. For a young woman to have her

pocket picked, denotes she will be the object of some person's

envy and spite, and may lose the regard of a friend through

these evil machinations, unless she keeps her own counsel.

If she picks others' pockets, she will incur the displeasure

of a companion by her coarse behavior.

Picnic
.[155]

To dream of attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment.

Dreams of picnics, bring undivided happiness to the young.

Storms, or any interfering elements at a picnic, implies the temporary displacement of assured profit and pleasure in love or business.

[155] See Kindred Words.

Pictures
.[156]

Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception

and the ill will of contemporaries.

To make a picture, denotes that you will engage in

some unremunerative enterprise.

To destroy pictures, means that you will be pardoned for using

strenuous means to establish your rights.

To buy them, foretells worthless speculation.

To dream of seeing your likeness in a living tree, appearing and disappearing, denotes that you will be prosperous and seemingly contented, but there will be disappointments in reaching out for companionship and reciprocal understanding of ideas and plans.

To dream of being surrounded with the best efforts of the old

and modern masters, denotes that you will have insatiable longings

and desires for higher attainments, compared to which present

success will seem poverty-stricken and miserable.

[156] See Painting and Photographs.

Pier
.

To stand upon a pier in your dream, denotes that you will be

brave in your battle for recognition in prosperity's realm,

and that you will be admitted to the highest posts of honor.

If you strive to reach a pier and fail, you will lose the distinction you most coveted.

Pies
.[157]

To dream of eating pies, you will do well to watch your enemies,

as they are planning to injure you.

For a young woman to dream of making pies, denotes that she will flirt with men for pastime. She should accept this warning.

[157] See Pastry.

Pig
.[158]

To dream of a fat, healthy pig, denotes reasonable success in affairs.

If they are wal owing in mire, you will have hurtful associates,

and your engagements will be subject to reproach. This dream will bring to a young woman a jealous and greedy companion though the chances are that he will be wealthy.

[158] See Hog.

Pigeon
.

To dream of seeing pigeons and hearing them cooing above their cotes, denotes domestic peace and pleasure-giving children. For a young woman, this dream indicates an early and comfortable union.

To see them being used in a shooting match, and, if you participate, it denotes that cruelty in your nature will show in your dealings, and you are warned of low and debasing pleasures.

To see them flying, denotes freedom from misunderstanding,

and perhaps news from the absent.

Pilgrim
.

To dream of pilgrims, denotes that you will go on an extended journey, leaving home and its dearest objects in the mistaken idea that it must be thus for their good.