The Dictionary of Dreams (61 page)

If a young woman dreams that her rooms are hung with tapestry,

she will soon wed some one who is rich and above her in standing.

Tapeworm
.

To dream you see a tapeworm, or have one, denotes disagreeable

prospects for health or for pleasure.

Tar
.

If you see tar in dreams, it warns you against pitfalls and designs

of treacherous enemies.

To have tar on your hands or clothing, denotes sickness and grief.

Tarantula
.

To see a tarantula in your dream, signifies enemies are about to overwhelm you with loss. To kill one, denotes you will be successful after much ill-luck.

Target
.

To dream of a target, foretells you will have some affair

demanding your attention from other more pleasant ones.

For a young woman to think she is a target, denotes her reputation

is in danger through the envy of friendly associates.

Tassels
.

To see tassels in a dream, denotes you will reach the height

of your desires and ambition. For a young woman to lose them,

denotes she will undergo some unpleasant experience.

Tattoo
.

To see your body appearing tattooed, foretells that some difficulty

will cause you to make a long and tedious absence from your home.

To see tattooes on others, foretells that strange loves will make

you an object of jealousy.

To dream you are a tattooist, is a sign that you will estrange yourself from friends because of your fancy for some strange experience.

Taxes
.

To dream that you pay your taxes, foretells you will

succeed in destroying evil influences rising around you.

If others pay them, you will be forced to ask aid of friends.

If you are unable to pay them, you will be unfortunate in

experiments you are making.

Tea
.

To dream that you are brewing tea, foretells that you will be guilty of indiscreet actions, and will feel deeply remorseful.

To see your friends drinking tea, and you with them, denotes that social pleasures will pall on you, and you will seek to change your feelings by serving others in their sorrows.

To see dregs in your tea, warns you of trouble in love,

and affairs of a social nature.

To spill tea, is a sign of domestic confusion and grief.

To find your tea chest empty, unfolds much disagreeable gossip and news.

To dream that you are thirsty for tea, denotes that you will be surprised with uninvited guests.

Teacups
.

To dream of teacups, foretells that affairs of enjoyment will be

attended by you. For a woman to break or see them broken, omens her pleasure and good fortune will be marred by a sudden trouble.

To drink wine from one, foretells fortune and pleasure will be

combined in the near future.

Teakettle
.

To dream you see a teakettle, implies sudden news which will be likely to distress you. For a woman to pour sparkling, cold water from a teakettle, she will have unexpected favor shown her.

Tears
.

To dream that you are in tears, denotes that some affliction

will soon envelope you.

To see others shedding tears, foretells that your sorrows will affect the happiness of others,
Teasing
.

To find yourself teasing any person while dreaming, denotes that you will be loved and sought after because of your cheerful and amiable manners.

Your business will be eventually successful.

To dream of being teased, denotes that you will win the love of merry and well-to-do persons.

For a young woman to dream of being teased, foretel s that she will

form a hasty attachment, but will not be successful in consummating

an early marriage.

Teeth
.

An ordinary dream of teeth augurs an unpleasant contact with sickness, or disquieting people.

If you dream that your teeth are loose, there will be failures

and gloomy tidings.

If the doctor pul s your tooth, you will have desperate illness, if not fatal; it will be lingering.

To have them filled, you will recover lost valuables after much uneasiness.

To clean or wash your teeth, foretells that some great struggle

will be demanded of you in order to preserve your fortune.

To dream that you are having a set of teeth made, denotes that severe crosses will fall upon you, and you will strive to throw them aside.

If you lose your teeth, you will have burdens which will crush your pride and demolish your affairs.

To dream that you have your teeth knocked out, denotes sudden misfortune.

Either your business will suffer, or deaths or accidents will come

close to you.

To examine your teeth, warns you to be careful of your affairs,

as enemies are lurking near you.

If they appear decayed and snaggled, your business or health

will suffer from intense strains.

To dream of spitting out teeth, portends personal sickness,

or sickness in your immediate family.

Imperfect teeth is one of the worst dreams. It is full of mishaps

for the dreamer. A loss of estates, failure of persons to carry

out their plans and desires, bad health, depressed conditions

of the nervous system for even healthy persons.

For one tooth to fall out, foretells disagreeable news; if two,

it denotes unhappy states that the dreamer will be plunged

into from no carelessness on his part. If three fall out,

sickness and accidents of a very serious nature will follow.

Seeing all the teeth drop out, death and famine usually will prevail.

If the teeth are decayed and you pull them out, the same, only yourself, is prominent in the case.

To dream of tartar or any deposit falling off of the teeth and leaving them sound and white, is a sign of temporary indisposition, which will pass, leaving you wiser in regard to conduct, and you will find enjoyment in the discharge of duty.

To admire your teeth for their whiteness and beauty, foretells that

pleasant occupations and much happiness will be experienced through

the fulfilment of wishes.

To dream that you pull one of your teeth and lose it,

and feeling within your mouth with your tongue for the cavity,

and failing to find any, and have a doctor for the same,

but to no effect, leaving the whole affair enveloped in mystery,

denotes that you are about to enter into some engagement which

does not exactly please you, and which you decide to ignore,

but will later take it up and secretly prosecute it to your own

disquieting satisfaction and under the suspicion of friends.

To dream that a dentist cleans your teeth perfectly,

and the next morning you find them rusty, foretells you will

believe your interest secure concerning some person or position,

but you will find that they have succumbed to the blandishments

of an artful man or woman.

Telegram
.

To dream that you receive a telegram, denotes that you

will soon receive tidings of an unpleasant character.

Some friend is likely to misrepresent matters which are of much

concern to you.

To send a telegram is a sign that you will be estranged from some one holding a place near you, or business will disappoint you.

If you are the operator sending these messages, you will be affected by them only through the interest of others.

To see or be in a telegraph office, foretells unfortunate engagements.

Telephone
.

To dream of a telephone, foretells you will meet strangers

who will harass and bewilder you in your affairs.

For a woman to dream of talking over one, denotes she will have

much jealous rivalry, but will overcome all evil influences.

If she cannot hear well in conversing over one, she is threatened

with evil gossip, and the loss of a lover.

Telescope
.

To dream of a telescope, portends unfavorable seasons for love

and domestic affairs, and business will be changeable and uncertain.

To look at planets and stars through one, portends for you

journeys which will afford you much pleasure, but later cause

you much financial loss.

To see a broken telescope, or one not in use, signifies that matters will go out of the ordinary with you, and trouble may be expected.

Tempest
.[222]

To dream of tempests, denotes that you will have a siege of

calamitous trouble, and friends will treat you with indifference.

[222] See Storms and Cyclones.

Temptation
.

To dream that you are surrounded by temptations, denotes that

you will be involved in some trouble with an envious person

who is trying to displace you in the confidence of friends.

If you resist them, you will be successful in some affair

in which you have much opposition.

Tenant
.

For a landlord to see his tenant in a dream, denotes he will have

business trouble and vexation. To imagine you are a tenant,

foretells you will suffer loss in experiments of a business character.

If a tenant pays you money, you will be successful in some engagements.

Tenpins
.

If you dream at playing at tenpins, you will doubtless soon

engage in some affair which will bring discredit upon your name,

and you will lose your money and true friendship.

To see others engaged in this dream, foretells that you will find

pleasure in frivolous people and likely lose employment.

For a young woman to play a successful game of tenpins, is an omen

of light pleasures, but sorrow will attend her later.

Tent
.

To dream of being in a tent, foretells a change in your affairs.

To see a number of tents, denotes journeys with unpleasant companions.

If the tents are torn or otherwise dilapidated, there will be

trouble for you.

Terror
.

To dream that you feel terror at any object or happening,

denotes that disappointments and loss will envelope you.

To see others in terror, means that unhappiness of friends

will seriously affect you.

Text
.

To dream of hearing a minister reading his text, denotes that quarrels will lead to separation with some friend.

To dream that you are in a dispute about a text, foretel s unfortunate adventures for you.

If you try to recall a text, you will meet with unexpected difficulties.

If you are repeating and pondering over one, you will have great obstacles to overcome if you gain your desires.

Thatch
.

To dream that you thatch a roof with any quickly, perishable material, denotes that sorrow and discomfort will surround you.

If you find that a roof which you have thatched with straw is leaking, there will be threatenings of danger, but by your rightly directed energy they may be averted.

Thaw
.

To dream of seeing ice thawing, foretells that some affair which has caused you much worry will soon give you profit and pleasure.

To see the ground thawing after a long freeze,

foretells prosperous circumstances.

Theater
.

To dream of being at a theater, denotes that you will have much

pleasure in the company of new friends. Your affairs will be

satisfactory after this dream. If you are one of the players,

your pleasures will be of short duration.

If you attend a vaudeville theater, you are in danger of losing

property through silly pleasures. If it is a grand opera,

you will succeed in you wishes and aspirations.

If you applaud and laugh at a theater, you will sacrifice duty

to the gratification of fancy.

To dream of trying to escape from one during a fire or other excitement, foretel s that you will engage in some enterprise, which will be hazardous.

Thermometer
.

To dream of looking at a thermometer, denotes unsatisfactory business, and disagreements in the home.

To see a broken one, foreshadows illness. If the mercury seems

to be falling, your affairs will assume a distressing shape.

If it is rising, you will be able to throw off bad conditions

in your business.

Thief
.[223]

To dream of being a thief and that you are pursued by officers,

is a sign that you will meet reverses in business, and your social

relations will be unpleasant.

If you pursue or capture a thief, you will overcome your enemies.

[223] See Stealing.

Thigh
.

To dream of seeing your thigh smooth and white, denotes unusual

good luck and pleasure.

To see wounded thighs, foretel s illness and treachery.

For a young woman to admire her thigh, signifies willingness

to engage in adventures, and she should heed this as a warning

to be careful of her conduct.

Thimble
.

If you use a thimble in your dreams, you will have many others

to please besides yourself. If a woman, you will have your own

position to make.

To lose one, foretells poverty and trouble. To see an old or broken one, denotes that you are about to act unwisely in some momentous affair.

To receive or buy a new thimble, portends new associations in which you will find contentment.

To dream that you use an open end thimble, but find that it is closed, denotes that you will have trouble, but friends will aid you in escaping its disastrous consequences.

Thirst
.

To dream of being thirsty, shows that you are aspiring to things beyond your present reach; but if your thirst is quenched with pleasing drinks, you will obtain your wishes.