Dream dictionary – symbols, part 17

Scientists have been studying sleep for many years, yet it has still not been settled whether dreams can really predict anything. Love, adventure, fascination – all of these matter enormously in our lives and often return in our dreams. A dream reflects your everyday concerns and gives voice to your desires and needs.

Below you will find the dream symbols from the Polish letter P, together with their traditional meanings. Every dream is worth reading in the light of your own situation in life.

Dream symbols from the letter P

Abduction – A hasty marriage.
Abyss – A little caution will do no harm; seeing one – through thoughtlessness you are harming a friend, and failure and the collapse of great plans also threaten; falling into one – great obstacles await you; being unable to get out of one – plans will collapse or you will fall into bad company.
Admiring – Admiring something – naive people are drawn to you; being admired – beware of flatterers.
Adventures – Danger is near.
Afternoon tea – Having afternoon tea – you long for peace and quiet.
Agent – An agency for hiring domestic servants – you will learn unpleasant things.
Air – Fine – cheerful news; stormy – bad news.
Amphibian – Persecution by enemies.
Ancestors – Mistrust in love; unintentional harm.
Apologising – A well-deserved punishment.
Applause – Winning applause – beware of an invitation.
Application – Destroying one – failure in your undertakings; sending one – a loss soon.
Armour – Danger is near; wearing armour – help in time of need.
Arriving – You will come up against great obstacles.
Arsonist – Beware of fire.
Ashes – Scattering them – mourning awaits you; gathering them – expect an inheritance; seeing them or walking on them – you are greedy, but to no avail; falling into ashes – you will lose a good deal of property.
Asking – A request in a dream expresses inner worry and hidden fears.
Asking questions – Asking a lot of questions – do not be too curious.
Assistant – Seeing one – you will become heavily dependent financially; being one – you will be taken advantage of; having an assistant – be on your guard; being served by one – you are overworked.
Attic – A fear of restriction or of ill health.
Back – Strength and perseverance.
Bad luck – Having bad luck – a sign that an undertaking will end happily.
Baked fish – Eating it – merry times are coming.
Baker – A blessed year.
Bakery – Seeing one – you will soon be rid of your worries; being in one – contentment and pleasure.
Baking – Baking bread – your fate is in your hands; biscuits or small cakes – slander or an imminent addition to the family; gateaux – a family celebration.
Ball – You are acting recklessly; a football – recklessness or a fear that you will not finish your work; playing – you will neglect your work; watching a match – you will take part in a sporting event.
Bas-relief – Hardship.
Battlefield – You will get tangled up in disputes.
Beach – Seeing a beach or spending time on one – a sign of variety to come.
Beads – You will hear tall tales and fabrications.
Bedbugs – Disputes; killing them – wealth.
Bedding – Unpleasantness.
Bedsheet – The funeral of an acquaintance.
Bedspread – A marriage soon.
Bee – A good symbol and a favourable omen; seeing one – success and profit; on large red flowers – the start of happy times in which everything goes well; catching one – large profits or a win; being stung – squabbles with friends, or according to another tradition an acquaintance that will leave lovely memories.
Beer – Pale – a letter; dark – a good income; cloudy – distress; sweet – a win; spilling it – something unpleasant; according to another tradition, beer foretells disappointment.
Being deeply moved – You will act rashly.
Belt – Contentment; an ornamental one – prosperity; finding one – trust; losing one – choose a different path in life; a golden one – a speedy and happy marriage.
Bindweed – False friends; sowing bindweed – mourning in the family.
Bird’s nest – With eggs or chicks – great joy; robbing it – domestic trouble; empty – you will soon set up a home of your own; birds’ eggs – a blessing.
Birds – A pleasant visit; songbirds herald news, migratory birds changes in life, and birds of prey warn against enemies; perched – sadness; flying – you will receive news; hovering in the air – distress; catching them – worry or a win; in a cage – blessings through your children, you will outwit others; with beautiful plumage – you will be audacious; clipping their wings – you will squander your luck; killing them – a loss; feeding them – you will invite merry company; many different species at once – conflict.
Bladder (blister) – Acquaintance with a fool; a blister on your body – good health.
Bloodletting – Usury and moneylenders.
Borrowing and lending – Borrowing from others – beware of recklessness; lending to others – you are respected and will receive a gift.
Box – Seeing or buying one – you will learn of a certain secret; an open one – watch out for thieves; receiving a small box as a present – a pleasant surprise.
Braggart – You will be made to look ridiculous.
Brainwashing – Ill health.
Bread and rolls – Seeing them being taken out of the oven – bad times will soon pass; eating them – you will be invited to a party; making them – a large profit.
Bringing – Bringing something – promotion.
Brush (paintbrush) – Unpleasantness in company.
Bud – Flower buds – love, engagement, wishes fulfilled; eating doughnuts (in Polish the same word also means a doughnut) – sensual pleasures.
Bundles – A visit from someone returning from a journey.
Burning (food) – Burning something – a quarrel that will lead to a parting.
Bursting – An unpleasant incident.
Burying – Burying something – an attempt to hide unwanted inclinations from the world; often also working to overcome an attitude that deep down you consider wrong; seeing someone close to you buried – bitter suffering; a stranger – an inheritance; being buried alive – misfortune and enslavement.
Calculating device – Your work will go quickly.
Carriage – Dreams come true; a travelling coach – your hopes will be fulfilled.
Carrion – Unpleasant news.
Catapult – You are surrounded by deceitful people.
Catching a cold – A slight indisposition.
Cave (grotto) – Danger.
Ceiling – Many people envy you; collapsing – great danger.
Cellar – A wine cellar – you entertain unrealistic ideas; going down into one – happiness; being in one and unable to find anything – ill health; seeing others go down – you are safe; falling down the cellar stairs – unpleasant circumstances will arise.
Chaff – You will come into property and wealth.
Chained – Being chained – you will commit yourself to someone; for single people – an engagement or a wedding.
Chambermaid – Seeing one – obstacles will appear in your life; being one – someone is looking after your future.
Cheek – Rosy – favourable prospects in an important matter; pale or gaunt – sadness, worries and little chance of settling an important matter; heavily made up – shame, or someone will try to create illusions for you; slapping someone’s face – harmony in marriage; being slapped – a quarrel.
Chest (breast) – Hairy – profits; beautiful – good health.
Childbirth – Wishes fulfilled, a kind of cleansing and relief; being present at a happy birth – joy and happiness; the birth of a boy – luck in business; the birth of a girl – painful experiences; a difficult birth – pain and sadness; giving birth yourself and seeing the newborn – benefits and freedom from worry; giving birth in pain – a hard time is approaching.
Chin – Full – prosperity; thin – want.
Chit-chat – It bodes no good.
Chopping block – A block for chopping wood – you will have to suffer a great deal.
Christening gift – Receiving one – you will be blessed with many children.
Chrysalis – Profit in a business venture.
Cigarette – You have a taste for adventure.
Claw – You will have a great many difficulties in a certain undertaking.
Cloak (coat) – Authority; a beautiful one – honour and importance; one that is too big – distress; a threadbare one – you arouse pity; altering one – you will get into trouble; putting one on – you will catch a cold; taking one off – you want to show yourself in a better light; seeing someone take it away – you will be put to shame; seeing someone wrapped in a cloak – pretence.
Clown (puppet) – You will be made a laughing stock; playing with a jumping jack – you lack seriousness.
Club (cudgel) – Seeing a club – defend your rights; beating a drum with a stick – you will have to defend yourself fiercely; hearing drumming – quarrels and noise.
Cobweb – An unpleasant matter.
Coercion – You will soon be proud.
Colonel – You will get a good job.
Comfort – Receiving it – help in time of need; offering it – you will make friends.
Commandment – Your request will be refused.
Compartment – Walking about in a railway compartment – a stumble in life; travelling or sitting in one – pleasures.
Condemning – Condemning someone – you are hard-hearted; being condemned – you will escape a great danger.
Congratulations – False news.
Contempt – Showing contempt – you will become the owner of a certain treasure.
Copying – Copying a book or a picture – shame, worry and fear.
Correcting – Listen to your friends’ advice.
Courtyard – An inheritance.
Cremation – You will receive news from faraway friends.
Crescent moon – Waning – your love will cool; waxing – love is growing.
Crosier – You will make up with your friends.
Cross-sections – Drawing them – hardship.
Crossing – Crossing a river – happiness and blessings; with someone of ill repute – losses.
Currants – Amends; eating them – a happy courtship; picking or stripping them – joy after suffering.
Current (electric) – You will come into conflict with those around you or be sorely harassed by a creditor.
Curse – Hearing or uttering curses – ill health or worries.
Delicacies – A comfortable life.
Deluge – A great danger threatens you.
Desert – A life full of worries, hard times, being deserted by friends; seeing one – until now your life has been unsuccessful; finding yourself in one – grave worries await you.
Digging through – Good prospects in business.
Dispenser (pharmacist) – The manager of a chemist’s – someone wishes you well.
Disturbing – You meddle in other people’s affairs.
Dog – A faithful friend; a rabid dog – a friend in danger; playing with one – reconciliation; barking – joy; being attacked by one – danger; being bitten – a quarrel over money; a hunting dog – diligence will bring you profit; on a lead – an enemy; on a chain – beware of thieves; dogs fighting – a family quarrel.
Doing the laundry – You will get rid of an enemy.
Down (feathers) – Plenty, a good income and a large profit; blown away by the wind – a loss of property.
Draught animals – Help with your work.
Drinking – Drinking water – wealth; from a glass – you will betray a secret; from another vessel – liberation; drinking other beverages – contentment.
Drunk – Your wealth will grow; being drunk yourself – pleasant moments await you; seeing a drunk person – you will suffer harm through someone else’s fault.
Drunkard – An importunate guest; according to another tradition, dissatisfaction and worry.
Duel – Being challenged to a duel – serious danger; taking part in one and winning – after great difficulties you will reach your goal, but it will bring you no joy; watching one from a distance – unpleasantness caused by jealousy.
Eagle owl – Seeing one or hearing its call – a harbinger of ill health or sad news.
Eavesdropping – Your acquaintances will pick over your faults.
Eiderdown – Your household is in a poor state.
Employee – A chemist’s assistant – ill health; a shop assistant or mortuary attendant – you will go through a spell of agitation.
Epilepsy – Having an epileptic fit – a lottery win.
Estate – Inheriting one – an advantageous marriage; receiving one as a gift – an addition to the family; buying one – do not live beyond your means.
Excitement – Obstacles.
Face powder – Extravagance; powdering yourself – you want to hide a bad deed; powdering others – you are helping someone in a bad cause; a powder puff – someone will outwit you.
Failing (an exam) – Failing an exam – you will pass it (a dream that works by contrast).
Falling at someone’s feet – Falling at someone’s feet – humiliation; a trap for vermin – someone wants to trick you.
Falling over – Endless worries.
Farewell – A token of friendship, but also a symbol of an imminent change in life; saying goodbye to someone yourself – faithfulness; being seen off by a female friend – an inheritance; seeing people saying goodbye – unfaithfulness on your part.
Farmhand – At work – a distinguished visitor is coming; quarrelling – something unpleasant.
Fast (fasting period) – It heralds a long period of weakness.
Fasting – You will know want.
Father (priest) – A father confessor or member of the clergy – unpleasantness.
Fawning – Be careful and cunning.
Feathers – Black – misfortune; white – you will be cleared of suspicion; floating in the air – your wishes will come true; writing with a quill – good news soon; adorning yourself with feathers – long journeys; plucking them – a win.
Feathers (down) – A misunderstanding.
Fence – Obstacles and tribulations.
Fence (garden fence) – A business rival, obstacles; jumping over a fence – a way out of a difficult situation; climbing over one – your arrival is awaited; a broken one – thieves.
Fern – Immodesty and wrongdoing.
Ferry – You will reach your intended goal.
Field – Beautiful and green – you have good earnings in view; ploughing one – your work will bear fruit; planting one – war and poverty; laid waste – hunger and want.
File (tool) – You need to work better.
Filing and sawing – Filing your nails – boredom; sawing wood – an uncertain undertaking.
Fine weather – Make the most of a good position.
Finger – Injured or cut – a loss, although according to another tradition you will be respected and loved; cut off or lost – serious harm; having beautiful fingers – you will earn respect.
Fingernails – Long – profit or help in poverty; short – loss and sadness; cutting them – shame, disputes and worries; tearing them out – poverty.
Fire (blaze) – Uncertainty, a need for help, distrust of those around you; seeing a fire – you will experience great joy; starting one – you will fight in vain against an unfavourable turn of fortune; a fire in your own home – flames alone without smoke mean an improvement in your situation, clouds of smoke mean it will get worse; see also: Fire.
Firecracker – War and calamities.
Fist – An open conflict will break out.
Flame – A warning against thieves; great flames – you will receive a lot of money.
Flattery – Hearing it – dashed hopes; flattering others – thanks to your courtesy you will achieve great things.
Flea – Unpleasant thoughts that irritate you but eventually go away; seeing fleas – grief or great anger; catching or killing them – you will put your affairs in order, an unexpected inflow of cash; having fleas – a quarrel; being bitten by them – a quick profit.
Flitting past – Seeing something flit past – you are careless.
Flood – Creditors will put you under heavy pressure or you will fall out with your family; according to another tradition, importunate friends.
Floor – The untimely loss of someone you love.
Flushing out – An engagement.
Fluttering – Seeing something flutter – you are reckless.
Foam – Seeing foam – fickleness in love; whipping up froth – you are not truthful.
Footstool – Faithful love, from your children too; a comfortable life.
Forgiveness – Your request will soon be granted.
Freckles – You will lose money; according to another tradition, attending a funeral.
Fricassee – You are inclined to extravagance.
Friday – You will not make the profit you expected.
Friend – Friends often embody you yourself or your other self; having a friend – secrets betrayed; visiting or meeting one – joy; laughing with one – a parting soon; quarrelling with one – a friend’s disloyalty; helping one – you will receive help yourself; being among many friends – people you are glad to see will arrive; seeing a friend who has died – unexpected news.
Friendship – It signifies a loyal friendship.
Frying pan – Quarrelsome neighbours; according to another tradition, your circumstances are satisfactory and your wife will turn out to have a sweet tooth.
Full moon – Luck in love.
Funeral – Something in your psyche is dying away – for a while or for ever; your own funeral – generally a good sign: a long life, good health and family happiness, although according to another tradition absurd ideas; the funeral of good friends – disputes and unpleasantness; of a stranger – an inheritance; attending a stranger’s funeral – a friend will fall on hard times; of an important figure – political changes; a magnificent one – you will become wealthy; a poor one – a hard struggle to make a living; in general also favourable relationships.
Funeral oration – You will find comfort.
Garter – Luck in love; see also: Stocking.
Gentleman – A distinguished gentleman – you will suffer an insult.
Gift – You will be robbed; receiving a gift – an improvement in your circumstances.
Gilding – Gilt or gilding – a sign of prosperity and of respect from those around you.
Gingerbread – Innocent joy.
Girth (saddle strap) – You will not be allowed to make use of your knowledge and skills.
Giving a present – Giving someone something – you will find understanding and help in a certain matter.
Gloss (sheen) – A calamity.
Goblet – Seeing one – be moderate; drinking wine from it – beautiful times are coming, you are the darling of the company; receiving a silver one – an important event; a gold one – pride will harm you; breaking one – an enemy’s downfall; chipping one – an unpleasant grudge.
Going too far – Going too far – you will prove to be a coward.
Gossip – Tactless behaviour; family problems.
Gout – Suffering from it – a bitter existence.
Great-grandfather – Happiness, a win.
Greeting – Unexpected guests.
Greetings – Receiving greetings – unpleasantness; being greeted in the street – a promising future.
Ground floor – Living on the ground floor – you will lead a quiet, comfortable life.
Guarantee – Standing surety – someone needs your help.
Guard post – Be careful.
Guide – Help in time of need.
Guinea fowl – You will find your way into good company.
Gunpowder – A warning not to go too far in a certain undertaking; using it – you are embarking on a risky and dangerous adventure.
Haberdashery – You like to dress up.
Hallway – You would make a better impression if you were more modest.
Hanging – A transitional stage in your development; seeing people being hanged – false friends, unpleasantness, you will be too late in an important matter; hanging someone – misfortune; being hanged yourself – a change for the better, happiness and honours.
Harbour – Seeing one – a sign of a carefree old age; reaching one – your hopes will be fulfilled; shopping there – happiness after many hardships.
Harvest (crop) – An abundant one – your expectations will be met; bringing in the crops – an inheritance; gathering them in bad weather – you will miss an opportunity.
Haven (landing stage) – Great honours await you; according to another tradition, many troubles.
Headband – Wearing one – complicated plans; tying one – success in difficult matters.
Hearth – With a fire burning – great blessings; without a fire – you will know loneliness, someone will abandon you.
Heel – Obstacles to your plans.
Hell – Great harm or a passing turn for the worse; entering it – you will be invited somewhere; falling into it – someone will challenge your right to something; getting out of it – rescue from danger.
Help – You will come to someone’s aid.
Hermit – Seeing one – you will be dealing with hypocrites; being one – you will join an association; meeting one in ragged clothes – bad news; being a hermit in tattered clothes – you will take on work that brings in no money; appearing as a hermit in your own home and not being recognised – a long separation from your family.
Hermitage – Seeing one or staying in one – you will lose someone’s love; living in one with your spouse – your partner will grow bored and leave.
High tide – A negative phenomenon in life that you should resist; seeing the tide come in and go out – changeable fortune; see also: Ebb tide.
Hillock – A short journey.
Hole in the ice – Misfortune.
Hooting – Calling out in the woods – you will fall into bad company.
Horse and cart – Hiring a horse-drawn cart – you will find help in time of need.
Horseshoe – Happiness and success; seeing one – an unexpected journey; finding one – you will escape life’s adversities; shoeing a horse – travel, a secure old age; removing a horseshoe – happiness cannot be tamed.
Hunting – Unexpected profits; hunting small game – failure in business; hunting big game – success.
Hurry – Hurrying – anxiety; hurrying to catch a train – many difficulties; missing the train despite hurrying – you want to achieve the impossible; eating in a hurry – good health; hurrying to the theatre or to a celebration – you will have an adventure.
Idler – Distress.
Idling – You will become poorer.
Increase in wealth – Family happiness.
Infantry – High prices; a foot soldier – loyalty and vigilance.
Instruction – Giving it – a sign of a good position; receiving it – you mix with people who have a rich spiritual life.
Interest (percentages) – Calculating it – distress in business; winning percentages – success after hard struggles; losing them – more than one thing in life will not go your way.
Interrogation – You will uncover a theft.
Interruption – Abandoning plans, doubting whether losses can be made good; a fear that someone will ruin your plans or damage your reputation by word or deed.
Intimate relations – Worries and unpleasantness.
Ironing – You will get rid of an enemy.
Joining – Joining things together – you will go out to meet your enemies.
Journey – You should continue along your path in life on new terms; setting out on a journey – changing friendships; making one – you will see faraway friends; on foot – an important matter will be postponed; by carriage – lasting happiness; in company – you will be showered with gossip.
Juror – A waste of time.
Keepsake – Receiving a keepsake as a present – joy will fill your heart; giving one yourself – a certain matter will bring you happiness.
Kennel – You must lower your expectations.
Kiss – Receiving one – separation from someone you love; giving one – mutual love, reconciliation; stealing one – passionate love; blowing a kiss – humiliation and submissiveness.
Kneeling – You will end up under someone’s thumb.
Knocking – Hearing it – an unpleasant obstacle.
Landscape – A longing for something that has no chance of success; bright and bathed in sunshine – happiness, joy, love; dark – low spirits and worries.
Laundry – Gossip and idle talk will cause you trouble.
Law – Defending the law – you will get caught up in disputes.
Lawsuit – Something unpleasant has happened and you fear further opponents; according to another tradition, you will gain loyal friends; taking someone to court – your wish will come true after a hard fight; being sued – selfish behaviour will bring you nothing but harm; winning – success after hardship, although the matter will turn out differently from what you think; losing – unpleasantness, you should make peace with your opponent.
Lawyer – A loss of property; dealing with one – feuds and conflicts.
Laying waste – Laying something waste – disgrace.
Leader – An inheritance and wealth, unfortunately short-lived.
Leeches – Beware of moneylenders.
Letters and documents – Receiving letters and documents – poor financial circumstances.
Linen (canvas) – Fine – prosperity; coarse – a modest income; buying it – your prosperity is growing.
Lining – The lining of a dress – a life of plenty.
Listening in – Plenty of company.
Little monster – A surprise.
Lungs – Healthy and strong – the coming days will demand a great deal of effort from you; enlarged – you tend to exaggerate your problems.
Maiden – Seeing a young unmarried woman – joy and happiness; meeting one – a good day; kissing her – joy or a marriage proposal; wearing a wreath – great honours and distinctions; praying – a calamity; taking her as your wife – a happy home life; an old maid – a faithful friend.
Making a speech – You will gain influence; listening to a speech – you will do good business.
Male nurse – You will win love and gratitude.
Meal – Often your body’s response when you go to bed hungry; eating a large meal alone – your ruthlessness makes you disliked; eating heartily in company or sharing food – you owe the affection of those around you to your kindness and hospitality; eating something frugal – you feel remorse; being hungry and unable to find anything – a change in your life.
Member of parliament – Obstacles at work; talking to one or seeing one – a hope that will be fulfilled only to a small degree.
Messenger – A profitable journey; a messenger brings surprises, usually not the ones you expect; bringing a letter – unpleasant news; bringing some other delivery – a pleasant surprise.
Migrating birds – A flight of ducks, swans or other birds overhead – unfulfilled wishes.
Military review – Sadness.
Millet – Good news and benefits from a lucky chance; eating it – a modest home.
Miscalculating – Dashed hopes.
Miscarriage – A symbol of uncertain plans or a fear that your intentions will come to nothing; according to another tradition, a sign of new undertakings; seeing one – disappointment.
Mistake – You are afraid of lies, yet you are deceiving yourself.
Money – Seeing a lot of money – unexpected wealth; receiving it – large expenses; finding it – luck at gambling; counting it – good earnings; spending it – you have prospects of a large income; losing it – a loss or failed work; lending it to others – worries and trouble; counterfeit money – you will lose an inheritance that is rightfully yours.
Money dealings – Doing business with money – an addition to the family.
Money order – Receiving one – you will get a reprimand; sending one – money will arrive; seeing the postman with a money order – an unexpected expense.
Monster – You are surrounded by dangers.
Monument – Seeing a monument – wasted effort; a monument to yourself – a life full of honours.
Mother-of-pearl – Danger threatens you.
Mould – Human kindness.
Mountain pass – Going through a pass or a mountain gap – joy.
Moving house – Your life will become constant wandering.
Mushrooms (button mushrooms) – A distinction.
Music stand – Jokes and witticisms.
Musical score – Seeing a score – you will go to a concert; reading one – plenty of work; writing one – a great honour.
Musk – You will be praised.
Nappies – An addition to the family.
Navel – Unfavourable news.
Need – Trouble and poverty – you are full of fears but counting on someone to rush to your aid; finding yourself in need – a happy event awaits you; seeing someone in trouble – you will receive valuable help; remaining indifferent to someone else’s poverty – you are threatened by one of life’s blows; feeling a need – a sign of insults to come.
Nettles – You will do something foolish.
Non-commissioned officer – Seeing one or spending time with one – you will find a friend or partner who will expect you to dance to their tune.
Noose – Your wishes will not come true; hanging from one – someone will cunningly trick you.
North Pole – Seeing it – a warning against extremes and overestimating your strength; wanting to reach it – you face a task beyond your strength.
Nurse – Peace and quiet.
Oath – Usually an unpleasant sign – you are in trouble; swearing an oath – unwelcome news or entanglement in a complicated lawsuit; swearing to prove your innocence – an unexpected inheritance; committing perjury – you want to get rid of an unpleasant matter by dishonest means; someone swearing an oath to save another – you have friends ready to help you in the most difficult situation; belonging to a conspiracy or watching one – you will get entangled in politics and suffer harm.
Obedience – Be careful in your undertakings.
Official record – Unpleasantness threatens you, and you have brought it on yourself.
Offspring – You will lead a quiet life.
Opponent – Coming up against one – friendship.
Oranges – Seeing them – unsatisfied desires or striving for the wrong things; on the tree – heartache in love; ripe – your hopes will be fulfilled; picking them – happiness awaits you in the future; buying them – your love will be returned; selling them – you will make a new acquaintance; peeling them – the joys of love; eating them – wasted effort; according to another tradition, oranges foretell family trouble.
Outstripping – You will live for many years.
Overcoat – Beware of looming danger.
Overcoming – Overcoming something – you must show willpower.
Overestimating – You will learn the hard way.
Overflowing – Watching something overflow – you will suffer losses.
Oversalting – A secret love.
Package – Receiving one – important news; receiving an empty one – unwelcome tidings; one containing money – you will go on a journey; sending one – a joyful surprise.
Packing – Packing something – business will be middling.
Page (boy) – You are inclined to inappropriate pranks; being a page – a love affair.
Painting – Painting something white – a great loss; black – you will lose a friend; green – have hope; red – you will receive an invitation; blue – cheerfulness and serenity; yellow – you have reason to be jealous.
Pairs – When something appears in a dream in pairs, it underlines the meaning of that image.
Palace – Seeing a palace – you are dissatisfied; owning one – people are jealous of you; living in one – you will win someone’s favour; receiving one as a gift – unexpected joy; building one – pride will be your downfall; demolishing one – a loss of standing and importance.
Palette – With paints – happiness; without paints – misfortune.
Palisade – You will come up against obstacles.
Palm tree – You will be singled out in company; many palms – unexpected adventures.
Pantaloons – Short breeches – someone is laughing at you.
Panther – An influential person will grant your wish.
Pantomime – You will be bored in company.
Paper – Seeing paper – trouble; writing on it – unpleasant letters await you; white – your innocence will come to light; coloured – good news; black – bad news; printed – you will be granted trust and honours; written on – persecution; painted – disappointment; torn – you will lose rights that are yours; floating in the air – dashed hopes; seeing paper being made – you put your knowledge to good use; cutting it – separation; tearing it – you will fly into a rage.
Paper mill – Concern for the future.
Parade – Needless expenses.
Paragraph – A section or clause of a text – your friends will betray you.
Paralysis – Often a warning dream: temporary difficulties cannot be cleared away at once, so you have to wait them out.
Parcel – Worries on account of your children; receiving a parcel – important news; sending one – a joyful surprise.
Parchment – An unexpected inheritance.
Parish priest – Everything is going your way.
Park – A pleasant life; laying out a park – a lovely excursion; strolling through one – fortune will smile on you.
Parliament – You will get caught up in unpleasant disputes.
Parrot – Pointless chatter; hearing a parrot – you will lose someone’s trust.
Parsley – You will find many protectors.
Parting (in hair) – An improvement in your situation, a change of goal.
Passage (crossing) – An improvement in your situation, a change of goal.
Passion flower – Worry and sadness.
Passion play – Worry will turn to joy.
Passport – A change of residence, and according to an old tradition also misfortune; a travel passport – long journeys will prove profitable.
Pasture – You will reach your goal; a pasture with cattle – wealth.
Pâté – Eating it – the discomfort of overeating; making it – gossip.
Patent – Receiving a patent – you will hit upon a good idea that is worth putting into practice; dealing with someone else’s – you will miss a deadline, but you can count on understanding.
Patrol – Keep things in order.
Patronage – Pulling strings for someone – your intentions will not be appreciated.
Pavilion – Unsatisfied longing; being inside one – a secret love.
Payment – Making a payment – a heavy duty awaits you; receiving one – something unpleasant will happen to you; payday – a small but secure income.
Peacock – A pleasant encounter on a journey; screeching – trouble; spreading its tail – you will achieve success.
Peacock feather – You are inclined to vanity.
Pearls – Tears.
Pedal – Help a friend.
Penance – Doing penance – worry; seeing a penitent – bad news.
Peony – You will find happiness in love.
Pepper – Eating it – adversity; grinding or crushing it – you are in a bad mood.
Pepper (capsicum) – Great anger.
Perfume – The favour of fate and of people; smelling it – disappointment.
Permission – Your wish will come true.
Persecuting – Persecuting someone – you are making no attempt to put right a mistake you have made; being persecuted – someone who has wronged you is now trying to make amends.
Peter (Saint) – Seeing Saint Peter or talking to him – joy and profit.
Petition – Seeing one – an undertaking will end badly; drawing one up – unpleasantness in business or at work; receiving one – losses.
Piano – A cheerful occasion.
Pie maker – Seeing one – pleasure.
Piercing – Piercing a person – you will overcome every obstacle; an animal – great benefits; yourself – you will fall in love.
Piglet – A good friend; seeing one – enviable good fortune; feeding one – beware of swindlers; roasting a suckling pig – pain.
Pilgrim – You will receive news from distant lands.
Pilgrim’s staff – You undertake arduous journeys.
Pilgrimage – You will move house; seeing one – your efforts will be rewarded; setting out on one – you need to repair your reputation.
Pillory – Seeing someone in the pillory – the downfall of an enemy; standing in it yourself – someone is slandering you.
Pillow – A passing indisposition; buying one – you feel tired and would like to rest; lying on one – you will receive help in a difficult situation.
Pills – Something unpleasant will happen to you.
Pilot – A pleasant change of fortune.
Pip (fruit stone) – You will meet with resistance.
Pirate – Danger or theft; also a bad premonition to which you should not give in.
Pistol – Anger; firing one – good results.
Pity – Contentment.
Plan – Seeing a plan – you will come up with an idea; according to another tradition, you will build a house of your own.
Planning – Think your intentions through carefully.
Plaster (sticking plaster) – A disadvantage; putting one on a wound – you will help your neighbour; wearing one – forgive those who offend you.
Plot of land – You will lose part of your property.
Plough – Fertility in the family.
Plume – Conceit.
Plush – You are extravagant.
Poet – Writing poems in a dream – you are superstitious.
Poetry – Reading it – very pleasant news.
Poker (fire iron) – Jealousy will stand in your way.
Polar landscape – Your love will cool.
Pole Star – Your hopes will be fulfilled.
Police – Worry; a call to respect the bounds of decency in everyday life; seeing the police – a warning against a bad deed; calling them for help – you want to settle accounts with someone, so do it face to face; dealing with them – restrictions and adversity are making your life difficult; receiving help from them – an unpleasant matter will end well, but you will return to it needlessly; a police officer – unnecessary trouble.
Politics – Talking about politics – a dispute with friends.
Polyp – A journey.
Pomade – You are very vain.
Poodle – Faithful love; a loyal friend is watching over you closely.
Pope – Seeing the Pope – you have religious doubts; talking to him – cheerfulness and peace.
Porcelain – Seeing it – prosperity; breaking it – an unexpected unpleasantness; buying it – you will set up a home of your own.
Porter (doorman) – Correct your mistakes; seeing one or dealing with one – do not worry about gossip; being a porter – do not poke your nose into other people’s business.
Portrait – Correct your faults; your own portrait – a new flirtation.
Post office – An invitation; you will put your affairs in order.
Postal messenger – You will receive letters; a mail coach – a journey out into the wide world soon.
Poster – An unexpected novelty.
Postilion – A merry life.
Poularde – A fattened hen – a life of plenty.
Powder (medicine) – A powder from the chemist’s – you will go away for a course of treatment.
Powder magazine – The undertaking is risky.
Power of attorney – Receiving one – you trust an unworthy person; granting one – you have loyal friends.
Praise – Hearing it – you will be slandered and deceived; giving it – your honesty will win you friends.
Prayers – Saying your prayers – great happiness; hearing them said – passing worries.
Prelate – Seeing one – merry moments; seeing many – a bright future.
Presbytery – A peaceful existence.
Present – An attempt to assess your relationships with others; giving a present – profit; receiving one – a loss.
President – Unpleasantness.
Press – Seeing a press or pressing something with it – you will receive good news; a wine press – you will earn a lot of money.
Pretzel – Seeing, buying or eating one – a sign of pleasure; selling them in the street – an improvement in your situation.
Preventing – Preventing something – you will uncover an evil intention; when someone gets in your way – people do not trust you.
Primrose – Luck in the lottery, a win.
Primula – Seeing one – a sign of luck in love; picking one – a little more patience and your longing will be satisfied; giving one to someone – your feelings will not be returned; receiving one from someone – someone returns your feelings, or you are loved without knowing it.
Prior – A sign of suffering.
Prioress – Seeing one – a marriage soon.
Procession – Happiness; a large one – wealth and happiness; a meagre one – want; a funeral procession, or walking in one – an inheritance.
Programme – Curiosity is doing you harm.
Project – Drawing up a project – you will carry out new plans.
Promenade – A lasting friendship; seeing one ahead of you – pleasant moments of relaxation; strolling along it – a meeting with a friend; meeting an acquaintance there – someone will not turn up for an appointment.
Promise – Disappointment awaits you; promising something – confidence in your own abilities.
Prophecy – Listening to one – your wish will come true; making one – do not promise too much.
Prophet – Being a prophet – those around you will not understand you; seeing one – a certain secret will be revealed or you will learn what you wanted to know; remember the prophet’s words, as they will show the direction events in your life will take.
Prostitute – Shame, bad company, mockery.
Protection (connections) – Plans that go awry; making use of someone’s influence – someone wants to win you over to something.
Psalms – Reading or hearing them – you will get help and support in a troublesome matter.
Pudding – An English dessert – making one: children like you; eating one – gossip.
Pump – Seeing one – encouragement to take action you have doubts about; working it efficiently – you are going too far in a certain matter; pumping with a broken pump – futile efforts in love.
Punch (drink) – Drinking it – happy moments, followed by a sobering-up; making it – someone is abusing your kindness.
Purple – Seeing it or wearing it – your overly lofty plans will not be realised.
Pursuit – A lack of money.
Pyjamas – A sign of intimacy; wearing them – someone is watching you in very private moments.
Pyramid – Honour and worldly goods.
Quail – A lucky streak in love.
Quince – Seeing the fruit – happiness in marriage; picking it – wealth; eating it – many people envy you; seeing a quince tree – a quiet life; cutting it down – adversity; quince cheese – one of your worries will leave you.
Rabble – Seeing a crowd of common people – disputes and adversity.
Ravine – Seeing a gorge – a warning against carelessness that could land you in an awkward position; seeing others in it – you must hurry to help a friend in trouble; stopping in it – you are on a dangerous path; falling into it – in a difficult situation you will have to accept help from others.
Rays – Have hope; rays of sunshine – a pleasant discovery.
Receipt – Freedom from troublesome thoughts; issuing one – painful expenses; receiving one – you will feel the consequences of your own rash behaviour.
Reception (party) – Your fortunes are changeable; passing worries.
Recipe (regulation) – Receiving one – you will lose your independence; drawing one up – you will secure better conditions.
Recommendation – Receiving a recommendation – a pleasant letter will reach you; recommending something to someone – you are losing the goodwill of those around you.
Reconciliation – You will ease your heart.
Religious procession – Seeing one – a happy turn of fate; taking part – happiness and joy.
Request – Humiliation; listening to a request – you will gain importance; granting it – you will be well liked; refusing it – you will lose something.
Ride (outing) – A change for the better.
Riding whip – Seeing or hearing someone crack a whip – losses through your own or someone else’s sluggishness; being beaten with one – you will be insulted; using one – good progress in a certain matter.
Ring – Fame and honour; a precious one – a pleasant future, and for those who are single a happy marriage; a gold one – blessings through your children; an iron one – a hard struggle to make a living awaits you; an ivory one – you will be free from suffering; a cracked one – quarrels and separation; finding one – discord; losing one – a parting or damage to your reputation; receiving one as a gift – beware of deceit, someone wants to talk you into something; giving one – an engagement; buying one – you will fall in love.
Rinsing – Ill health will pass you by.
Rising – Your prosperity is growing slowly.
Roast – Great distress; eating a roast – a fine future; preparing one – an invitation.
Roofing felt – You will be betrayed.
Room – Seeing a room – joy and pleasures; a bright one – success; a poor one – excessive desires; being a valet – a meeting with a dear friend.
Rope (cord) – Seeing one – unpleasant things; buying one – you will suffer a shock.
Rope (halter) – A lawsuit awaits you; seeing one – you will start a profitable venture; pulling on it – you will have to take on unwelcome duties; pulling it together with others – you live in harmony with your family.
Rotten wood – A sign of mourning.
Rubber stamp – Pleasant guests will arrive.
Rucksack – A pleasant guest; carrying one – a hike; buying one – a longer excursion.
Running over – Being run over – unpleasantness, failed plans, someone will embarrass you; running someone or something over – needless expense through carelessness.
Salary – Unexpected good fortune.
Sand – Unfeasible plans; pouring sand – uncertain circumstances.
Saw – Seeing a saw – your wish will come true; sawing – a successful year in business.
Scabs – Having scabs on your head – you will gain great wealth.
Sealing – You hide your thoughts.
Securities – Seeing them – a warning against speculation in business or in private life; buying them – financial losses or irritating expenses; losing them – you will be spared a mistaken speculation or some other material loss.
Seeker – An adventurer – uncertainty towards those around you or towards a certain person, a tendency to form risky acquaintances; a treasure hunter – you will be cheated.
Servant (odd-job man) – Cheerful news.
Shelter (almshouse) – Great honours; according to another tradition, worries.
Shepherd – A good position, but guard your honour; with a fine flock – a happy home life; with a scrawny flock – the family will grow slowly; with pigs – you will defeat your enemies.
Shepherdess – A pleasant encounter.
Shoe polish – Seeing it or using it – you will treat yourself to a new wardrobe.
Shower – A reaction to your own behaviour; a cold one – your honest intentions will not be appreciated; a warm one in a cold room – good health; in cheerful company – a great deal of pleasure.
Sieve (riddle) – Extravagance.
Site (square) – A building site – an inheritance; a racecourse – financial losses.
Skirmish – A bold undertaking; falling in one – disputes.
Slippers – A change in your circumstances; owning slippers – a happy marriage; buying them – marital misunderstandings, one spouse will dominate the other; embroidering them – contentment; receiving them as a gift – you do people favours; walking about in them – inner peace; torn slippers – discord in marriage.
Slops – Dirty and greasy – a bad sign, like dreams of murky water; clean and clear – a better meaning.
Smoking – Smoking tobacco – good health; seeing people smoking – you will find your way into good company.
Smuggling – Dangerous undertakings fill you with worry.
Sole (of a shoe) – Adversity.
Song – Singing one – joy; hearing one – a wedding.
Spider – Seeing a spider – a favourable turn of fate; killing one – you will defeat your enemies.
Spinning (yarn) – A wedding.
Spitting – Spitting at someone – rows and a loss of money; being spat at – happiness and success.
Stain – Having grease stains on your clothes – a wealthy marriage; making stains – you will make a mistake; pockmarks or pimple scars – you will strike up a good acquaintance.
Stake (post) – Seeing a stake – a worthwhile undertaking; driving one in – useful work.
Standard roses – With many flowers – a happy marriage.
Statue – A pleasant future.
Steam – Your plans will come to nothing.
Steam engine – Prospects of wealth.
Steam locomotive – Urgent business or unexpected visitors.
Steamship – Sailing on one – a journey with an uncertain, unclear purpose.
Stocking – A sensual meaning, especially together with a garter; often the expression of a secret dream; seeing one – an untroubled idyll; losing one – pleasant moments will be disrupted and restless days will follow; silk stockings – poverty; torn ones – a lot of money.
Stove – Unexpected plenty; hot – great success; warming yourself by it – prosperity; cold, without a fire – you will run short of the bare necessities; collapsing – losses; putting in a stove – a pleasant old age; very beautiful – comfort; lighting a fire in it – a quiet life in a cosy home; burning yourself on it – you will keep your self-confidence; hiding behind it – remorse.
Stream – Happiness; bathing in one – a return to strength.
Stroll – A waste of time.
Stumbling – You may make a mistake; if you do not fall – fate will spare you misfortune.
Superior (boss) – Recognition; dealing with your superiors – reconciliation with an enemy; being a superior – small worries.
Supplies (stationery) – Writing materials – a reminder of a matter you must finally deal with; being unable to find the ink – you will pay for your tardiness and forgetfulness; sewing things – a gift; school things – you will pass an exam.
Suspicion – Suspecting someone – you will slander someone.
Swaddling clothes – You will lose your independence.
Sweat – For the sick – a return to health.
Sweating – Hard work.
Sweating sickness – Fear and dread.
Swimming – In clear water – a carefree life; in murky water – adversity; in a torrent – you will do something audacious; in very shallow water – a laborious path through life; swimming and drowning – misfortune; rescuing someone – you will escape a looming danger; seeing people swimming – your wish will come true.
Sword knot – The tassel on a sabre or sword – you will be given a good, prominent position.
Taking fright – Danger.
Tawny owl – Often a warning dream – heed the advice of those around you; seeing one – you will receive valuable advice and should follow it; hearing its call – sad news about someone close to you.
Tax – Paying tax, receiving a tax form or dealing with the tax office – you will soon feel painfully that you are not your own master.
Tax collector – An unpleasant encounter.
Tearing up – Tearing up letters or documents – bad news; other things – you will have to carry out an unpleasant duty.
Temptation – Nothing bad threatens you.
Thirst – Feeling thirsty – you cherish vain hopes; quenching your thirst – a beautiful life; suffering from thirst – worries await you.
Threat – A misunderstanding; making threats – you are behaving badly.
Threshold – You will build a house.
Thunderbolt – Reconciliation with an enemy; also great responsibility.
Tidying – You will find something you have lost.
Tin (can) – Money saved; as a container – a symbol of a sheltered life; empty – losses; silver – benefits; beautifully painted – a pleasant acquaintance soon; receiving one as a gift – you have good friends; finding one – you will hear good news; losing one – you will come into conflict with yourself; a tin of cosmetics – you are very vain.
Tippling – Having a drink or two – you will be successful; on credit – pay off your debts; paying for the drinks – you are generous.
Tipsy – Being tipsy – you indulge in pleasant illusions; seeing someone tipsy – you will gain the upper hand over someone.
Tomato – Secret desires or a secret love; picking, preparing or eating tomatoes – a hidden romance will have unpleasant consequences.
Torches – A long life; extinguished – marital infidelity; carrying one – mutual love; a torchlight procession – great joy.
Tow (flax fibre) – You are dealing with fools.
Train – A hurried journey, a tendency to be wasteful; an express train – your wishes will quickly come true.
Transformation – Being transformed – you will go on a journey.
Trap – Seeing one – harm; a mousetrap – someone is trying to blacken your name or is setting an ambush for you.
Traveller – A change in your relations with those around you.
Tree stump – A sign of mourning in the family.
Trombone – A brief friendship; seeing or hearing one – a reckoning awaits you; playing the trombone – someone will hold you to account; being unable to get a note out of it – you will suffer losses and be mocked; many trombones – you will have to take on certain obligations.
Troubles – Having troubles – the loss of property or of a domestic animal.
Trout – Seeing one in clear water – happiness; fishing for trout – a lottery win; eating one – you will receive sad news.
Truth – It signifies an upright character.
Turning pages – You will change your opinion of someone you know.
Turning pale – Turning pale yourself – you will be caught lying; seeing others turn pale – unpleasant news.
Tying – You will hear something unpleasant.
Tyre – A car tyre – rapid progress.
Umbrella – A little caution will do no harm; a torn one – painful illusions; a small parasol – you will find help.
Underground – You are trying in vain to fathom a secret; getting lost in underground passages – you will take a wrong turning in life.
Unpicking – Misfortune and loss.
Vehicle – You can expect events to develop favourably.
Violence – A loss.
Waiting room – A longing for adventure.
Waking up – Success at work.
Wallet – It reflects the livelihood you are fighting for; losing one – your secret will come out; finding one – you will discover someone’s secret; finding a wallet full of money – you would like to get money without working, but it will not work out; getting back a stolen one – watch out for someone close to you who means you harm.
Washerwoman – At work – you will get a bad reputation.
Water trough – You will live in luxury.
Watering can – You will come into possession of a garden.
Watering flowers – Pleasant relationships.
Waxworks – Visiting a waxworks – you will live through moments of terror which, fortunately, will leave no ill effects.
Weeping – Crying yourself – you will know great joy, a happy event; seeing others weep – you will upset someone close to you.
Wheat – Prosperity and happiness.
Wig – You will be laughed at; wearing one – you will be given a higher position.
Wild strawberries – A happy marriage and good business; eating them – pleasant news; a large quantity – you will fall in love; picking them – a slight indisposition; very large ones – you are proud; handing them out – you will be remembered fondly.
Wilderness – Cares and worries.
Work – A favourable omen of success achieved through your own efforts; doing work – a larger inflow of cash than before; commissioning it – profit; working yourself – success; seeing people at work – a certain undertaking will fail.
Writer – Complications await you.
Writing – You will make an important decision; writing neatly – you will be praised; writing badly – your request will be turned down; writing backwards – you are devious; seeing handwriting – a short trip abroad.
Yarn – Nervousness – it is hard to master, but try to pull yourself together.

Dream dictionary – symbols, part 17

Dream symbols from the letter P

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