Dream dictionary – symbols, part 22

Not sure what your dream means? Dreams have long been regarded as a kind of omen which – when interpreted well – can hint at what the future holds. A general interpretation is a good starting point, but it is always worth relating a dream’s meaning to your own situation in life.

Below you will find the dream symbols from the Polish letter W, together with their traditional meanings.

Dream symbols from the letter W

Accident – Seeing one – a crisis or disaster in the dreamer’s life; a car accident – a warning that you may be steering your life in the wrong direction; surviving an accident – acquaintance with reckless people will cause you losses or trouble.
Army – Agitation, fear and poverty.
Auditorium – Going there often – you will have an accident.
Bathtub – Prosperity; bathing in one – happiness, and according to another tradition a course of treatment awaits you; seeing one – you could do with a rest; a rocking bath – trouble.
Beating out – Beating clothes, carpets or furniture – protect your property from damage.
Beef – Eating it – good business relations.
Bill of exchange – Paying one – business is going well; issuing one – you are reckless; being unable to pay one – you will fall into debt.
Breach of faith – Marital happiness; committing one yourself – the danger of fire and the loss of property.
Bucket – Full – good business; empty – the jackpot in the lottery; taking it to the well – a reward for hard work; a water pail – honour.
Bumping into – Bumping into someone – use your wits.
Burglar – Being robbed by one – a hard struggle to support your family awaits you soon; seeing one in your own home – the loss of your good name and of the respect of your acquaintances.
Calling out – Hearing someone call you – a bad omen; hearing others calling – enemies.
Camel – Owning or seeing one – for the wealthy it heralds a journey, for the poor a profit; riding one – elevation; a camel caravan in the desert – help when hope is almost gone, or recovery after a serious illness.
Cart (wagon) – Riding in one – prosperity, you have urgent business; without horses – you will lack the strength to carry out your plans; falling or being thrown out of one – an unpleasant incident, you must change your plans; overturned – a loss, misfortune close at hand; overturning with it – an unfortunate decision will cause you many worries; broken – a friendship broken off; seeing people riding in one – celebrations; many carts or a vehicle drawn by many horses – your desires will be fulfilled; beautifully loaded – success in business; a hay cart – great happiness; a goods wagon – you will acquire many material goods.
Cello – Hearing one – you need help from others; you will thwart someone’s evil plan.
Challenge – Receiving one – harmony with your opponents; issuing one – new enemies.
Charcoal burner – You will reach your goal by a roundabout route.
Cheerful – Being cheerful – mourning.
Cherry – A cherry tree in blossom – happiness, blessings and fun; a tree with fruit – a happy home; cherry blossom – happiness is near; cherry wood – you have strange whims. Eating cherries – a quarrel; picking them – joy; cherry cake – a misunderstanding.
Choosing – Consult your own conscience.
Climbing – A tree – your lot will improve; a rock – you will meet many obstacles.
Clock hand – Act before it is too late.
Coachman – Growing wealth and prosperity; according to another tradition, you will have to listen to a lot of rudeness.
Coals – Seeing them – wealth and happiness; glowing – someone loves you dearly.
Coast – What you long for will come true at times – someone is watching over you.
Confession (declaration) – You will be so overcome with emotion that you will be unable to work.
Cotton wool – Hide yourself well; you will know how to make yourself a soft bed.
Country estate – You will gain true friends.
Countryman (peasant) – A carefree life awaits you.
Countrywoman – You must save money.
Crow – Discord will end tragically.
Curate – You need help.
Cured meats – Acquaintance with older people, and mourning.
Departure – With a heavy heart you will turn against a colleague; leaving – great danger.
Derailment – An unpleasant adventure awaits you.
Digging up – You will win the person you love or receive the letters you long for.
Disgust – Feeling it – worry and care.
Disinheritance – Hard work; being disinherited – sad news in the family.
Dogs howling – Hearing them – a great fire.
Draughts – A miscalculation.
Dream interpreter – Someone is trying to trick you.
Driving out – Driving someone out – distress.
Easter – There will be changes for the better at work or in your business; you may also want to make changes at home – redecorate or replace your furniture.
Easter egg – A marriage proposal; eating one – profit and happiness; giving one to someone – loyal friendship.
Eel – Seeing one – good news; pulling one out of the water – for the sick it heralds health, for the healthy success; letting one slip away – you will lose a profitable deal; eating one – good news.
Elegant – Being elegant – you let yourself be dazzled by appearances.
Elm – You will lead a beautiful life.
Embankment (rampart) – You will come across many obstacles, which your energy will overcome.
Emigration – Changes soon.
Enemy – You will meet a good friend.
Entrails – Seeing them – a life full of joy, and love.
Entrance – Being unable to find it – you act without thinking.
Entry (ceremonial) – Seeing a ceremonial entry – joy and a wedding.
Excursion – A lawsuit won; a trip to the mountains – an inheritance; to the mountains with others – you will have to go to court; a boat trip, taking part in one – you will come into an inheritance; seeing an excursion – a pleasant surprise.
Exhibition – Someone is exploiting you; visiting one – you need to broaden your knowledge.
Exile – A change in your circumstances.
Explosion – A sudden event will bring great changes to the family.
Fairy (fortune teller) – Seeing one – a happy life; talking to one – an engagement soon.
Fan – Unrequited love.
Fetters – Wearing them – you will be given an official post; putting them on someone – you will gain power.
Fight – Watching one – jealous people are harassing you; being caught up in one – you are at risk of losing your position; a cockfight – hard times.
Fishing rod – Beware of fraud and trickery; fishing with one – do not waste time on a matter with no prospect of success; a rod for fish – you have prospects of profit; an angler – you will receive a marriage proposal.
Fork – Dropping one – distress; eating with one – misfortune threatens you.
Free – Being free – merry times.
Freemasonry – You will find a benefactor.
Furious – Being furious – distress and worry.
Gates – Open gates – you will go visiting.
Getting on board – Danger.
Going up – Going up a mountain, climbing stairs or a ladder – you will certainly reach your goal.
Goitre – Seeing one on someone – you will make a mistake; having one yourself – a good catch.
Grandson – Unexpected joy.
Grape harvest – You will be in an elevated mood.
Grapes – Seeing them – you will reach your goal; planting vines – you will consolidate your happiness; cutting bunches – a happy home life; white – joy; red – distress; receiving them as a gift – a new acquaintance; seeing them pressed – hard work and perseverance will be rewarded; eating them – success in love; vine shoots – happiness and love; phylloxera (a vine pest) – shaky success.
Grapevine – Blessings through your children; without fruit – tears.
Hair – Combing it – good earnings; cutting it – worry or sad news in the family; growing – success in business; falling out – a loss of property; selling it – misfortune; red – falsehood; white – peace of mind; fair – gentleness and kindness; beautiful black hair – you are loved; greying – many worries await you; neatly combed – friendship; tousled – discord in the family; worn loose – worry; long – power and importance, the respect and love of those around you; plaiting it – you will make new acquaintances; dyeing it – vanity and hypocrisy; combing someone else’s – you are unwittingly annoying someone; combing out your own – a loss in business; on your chest – good health; on your arms – failure or thoughts of the future; washing it – anxiety; burning it – betrayal, or according to another tradition you will avoid unpleasantness.
Hanged man – A lack of money will make itself felt.
Hatching – Seeing chicks hatch – you are worrying unnecessarily.
Heather – Do not lose hope; cleared away – unfulfilled hopes; a heath – you still have a last glimmer of hope; withered – hope is gone; in bloom – your hopes will be fulfilled.
Height – For a moment you will lose touch with reality.
Hill – You will hear of a happy event at home.
Holidays – You must shed your conceit, because it is stopping you from reaching your goal.
Incubator (brooding hen) – Domestic troubles.
Initiation – You will set up a new business.
Insult (name-calling) – You will make up with a friend.
Invention – Making one – a loss of money.
Island – Green – your happiness is near; landing on one – you will find complete happiness; being on one alone – your friends will abandon you; deserted – a loss of property.
Knot – Tying one – complications in an important matter; untying one – you will reach your goal through perseverance.
Labourer – A day labourer – your undertaking will bring you joy.
Laurel – A laurel tree – splendour, honour and wealth; laurel leaves – an advantageous marriage; a laurel wreath – your virtue will be rewarded.
Lending library – You should make better use of your time.
Lift (elevator) – Sudden changes in your emotional life – favourable or unfavourable.
Lime – Your malice will land you in misfortune.
Lips – Pale – anger; bleeding – you will make a mistake; full and blooming – success.
Liver – Eating it – a serious illness; liver dumplings – troubled times.
Louse – A lot of money awaits you; seeing lice on someone – growth; having them in your hair – an unpleasant illness or an unwelcome turn of fate that will soon change for the better; very large ones – wealth; killing them – an unpleasant task; on animals – want.
Luring – Luring someone to you – trickery, betrayal, dubious flirtations.
Madman – Being one – a long life; seeing one – speculation.
Message – Receiving one – pleasant news.
Moustache – Passing love or praise; greying – empty joy and a vain old age; on a woman – you will suffer something unpleasant.
Moving out – Moving out of your flat – a loss through carelessness or theft.
Oar – You will set off on a journey; rowing – your work is blessed.
Oracle – Consulting one – you must act as you see fit.
Otter – Happiness at home.
Outhouse – Disfavour and envy.
Ox – Seeing one – luck in trade; slaughtering one – sufficient income; thin – high prices; fat – happiness soon; driving one – worry. Oxen in harness – you have powerful friends; being slaughtered – a good living; seeing them driven – a great deal of toil; leaping – you are faithfully loved; being threatened by them – disloyal subordinates.
Pendulum – The pendulum of a clock – unexpected earnings.
Pitchfork – A dung fork – you must perform unpleasant duties; a hayfork – happiness and wealth.
Plait – Seeing one – someone is deceiving you; wearing one – you cling to old superstitions; plaiting one – you are taking an important matter too lightly; losing one – misfortune; cutting one off – you are breaking with the past.
Pork – Salting it – take care of the future; eating it – do not set yourself above your station.
Postcard – Receiving one – someone is thinking of you; writing one – you are making useless plans.
Pouch – With money – an obstacle to your amusements; finding a well-filled one – contact with wicked people; finding an empty one – wasted work; finding one with stones in it – a lottery win.
Power – Gaining power – vanity and conceit.
Pram (small cart) – A pram – a happy, harmonious marriage; a wheelchair – a premature decline in strength.
Prison – You will get a permanent job; being a prisoner – you will not have to worry about food.
Pyrography – Designs burnt into wood – you are vain.
Rabies – Misfortune.
Races – You will reach your intended goal and beat your rivals; taking part in them – take care of your work.
Rash (eczema) – On your own body – you will feel worse; on others – worry.
Renting – You will have trouble.
Rest – Resting – your old age will be carefree.
Ribbon – Loyal friendship; holding one – you will find a loyal friend; green – hope; red or colourful – dancing, joy and fun; yellow – distress; blue – faithful love; black – mourning; endless – you will run up debts; measuring one – good earnings or debts; sewing one on – you will fall in love and get engaged; plaiting it – you will strike up a friendship.
Ridiculing – You have enemies.
Rival – Having one – slander will fall upon you.
Roller – A certain matter can be settled the way you want.
Roller skates – You cling to old superstitions.
Round of drinks – On credit – pay off your debts; paying for it – you are generous.
Sack – With holes – great losses; carrying a heavy one – hard times and a great deal of toil; empty – worries, your plan will not succeed; full of grain – many people envy you; full of fruit – you will suffer losses; full of money – a win or a reward; many full sacks – prosperity; a tobacco pouch – prosperity.
Sale (clearance) – A lawsuit lost and the losses that go with it.
Scales – You will win a lawsuit; profit thanks to careful calculation; weighing yourself – you will uncover a fraud.
Scent – A pleasant scent – you will attain honours.
Scorn – Being scorned – you will reach your goal and be promoted.
Shame – Feeling ashamed – you will be praised, success in trade; according to another tradition, your conscience is not clear.
Sighing – A secret longing; hearing sighing – someone you do not know loves you.
Snake – A large one – you are being deceived; a small one – unpleasantness; stepping on one – you have bad friends; being bitten – slander; many-headed – unsuitable temptations will beset you; killing one – you will render an enemy harmless; writhing – a loss of money; many snakes – passing dissatisfaction; a rubber hose (for watering) – a tendency to recklessness.
Soothsayer – You will come into contact with eminent people.
Sparrow – Someone will love you insincerely and then abandon you; sparrows – quarrels and squabbles; shooting at them – useful work; catching them – an unexpected meeting; chirping – gossip.
Spear – Hatred.
Spectator – Being a spectator at a ceremony – you will find yourself in grand company.
Spindle – Expect a pleasant future; at a spinning wheel – domestic happiness; a yarn winder – you must even out inequalities.
Spring – You will fall in love; a beautiful future awaits you.
Spurge – Picking it – you are about to put yourself in the hands of untrustworthy people.
Squirrel – Seeing one – unexpected joy; eating – family happiness; trying to catch one – danger threatens you; being bitten – worry because of your children or husband.
Suitcase – Empty – money; full – caution is advised; a small case – cut down on spending on romantic adventures.
Supper – Too comfortable a life will bring on old age sooner.
Telling fortunes – You will pick up some useful information.
Toothpick – An insult on behalf of a friend.
Tower – Climbing one – benefits; collapsing – you will lose your freedom; beautiful and tall – you will overcome difficulties.
Tureen (urn) – With beautiful flowers – you are very well liked; receiving one as a gift – your wealth is growing; breaking one – you will lose a friend; making one – the loss of friends.
Tying up – Tying something up – you will get entangled in a lawsuit.
Udders – A blessing and a gift.
Ulcer (boil) – Great trouble; healing – success after many disappointments; on the legs – failure in business; on the back – you will defeat your enemies; on the hands – mourning.
Uncle – Good family news; an uncle (affectionately) – you will triumph at the news of honours bestowed on you.
Unharnessing – White horses – many flirtations; brown ones – someone is insulting you; black ones – someone you dislike will get married; other animals – you will uncover a fraud.
Unloading – Unloading something yourself or watching it done – someone needs your help.
Vacancy – A vacant post heralds merry times.
Vagabond – You will get a bad reputation.
Vampire – You will fall into the hands of swindlers; someone is exploiting you.
Vase – A large one – plenty and honours; broken – disgrace; with flowers – passing happiness.
Vaseline – Consolation.
Veil – Wearing one – keep your opinion to yourself; seeing someone veiled – do not be gullible; a bridal veil – seeing or wearing one – your hopes will be fulfilled.
Verdict – Hearing one – you will suffer harm; passing one on someone – take care not to hurt anyone, even by accident.
Vermouth – You will come to know many worries.
Vetch – Contentment.
View – Beautiful and extensive – happiness and prosperity; restricted – an uncertain future and various adversities.
Villa – A country villa – you are hiding a secret love in your heart.
Village – Seeing one – an unfavourable future; living in the country – a quiet life; a village on fire – prosperity; seeing a poor village – you will become poorer.
Village musicians – You will soon become a godparent.
Vision – Having a vision – you will make a mistake.
Visit – Paying one – you will start an unjustified dispute; receiving one – you will win great affection.
Vodka – Worry and want at home; drinking it – a lack of moderation is harming you.
Volcano – Extraordinary adventures and changes in life; spewing fire – great upheavals in your life.
Vomiting – You will lose your fortune within a single year.
Wagon (railway carriage) – A business trip; a goods wagon – you will come up against obstacles; seeing a wagon overturn – a loss of money.
Waltz – Dancing one – you will soon propose; seeing people dancing one – your love will go unrequited; playing one – you will bring a great deal of joy; hearing one – do not be idle, make the most of your youth.
Wanderer – You will soon leave your home.
Wandering – Through your own fault you will fall into poverty; being on a hike – you must weigh everything up carefully.
War – Toil and burdens; waging war – defend yourself against your enemies; going to war – a clash with the authorities.
Warsaw – You will deeply regret the loss of friends.
Water – Worry and sadness. Cold – great happiness; drinking cold water – good health; hot or warm – illness; boiling – you have a fiery temperament; scalding yourself with boiling water – you will come to harm through carelessness; murky – losses and obstacles; spilling it – you are mistaken about a certain matter; falling into water – suffering; drowning – you will come under great pressure; wading across – you will free yourself from danger; bathing – you will be cleared of accusations; seeing people bathing – you will make peace with your enemies; walking on water – you will overcome every obstacle; hearing it rushing – you will be judged harshly; holy water – good health and good company.
Water mains – Happiness is near.
Water snake – For the sick it heralds a return to health.
Waterbird – Danger will threaten you.
Waterfall – Dashed hopes; hard experiences will teach you sense.
Wax – A cold; kneading it – a good wife; melting it – a loss; sealing wax – you will betray someone’s trust or someone will betray yours; wax figures – you will spend time with bores; seeing wax candles lit – you will take part in an exquisite feast; buying them – you will avoid a great deal of trouble; a coil of wax taper – you must make a sacrifice.
Wedding reception – Taking part in one – for single people it heralds a wedding soon, for married couples children; dancing at a wedding – be careful with the opposite sex; your own – happiness in marriage; with a stranger – your affairs will become complicated; wedding guests – family joys; seeing a wedding procession or walking in one – you will unexpectedly win someone’s heart.
Whale – A happy event.
Whirlpool – A whirlpool in a river – danger. Your business faces serious risk; unless you are especially careful, your reputation may suffer as a result of some intrigue.
Widow – Being a widow or widower – expect new joys in life; taking a liking to a widow – a rich inheritance.
Willow – By the water – melancholy days; a weeping willow – mourning in the family.
Wind – Hearing it – you will receive empty promises.
Windmill – Turning – you are glad to work; standing still – you are lazy.
Wine – Drinking it – carefree times, your worries will come to nothing; red – always in good spirits; white – you will find contentment; spilling it – you will squander your luck; apple wine – modest joys; wine soup – a slight indisposition.
Wine bar – You lack moderation.
Winnings – You will experience something unpleasant.
Witch – This very day your heart will rejoice.
Wolf – You will meet a good friend and get rid of bad neighbours. Seeing one – there is a thief nearby you need to watch out for; killing a wolf – you will defeat enemies who want to blacken your name; hearing howling – a warning against unfair competition.
Wool – Buying it – you are on the road to prosperity; working it – you keep your home in order; combing it – laborious work with quarrelsome people; woollen dresses – you will do good.
Workshop – Good earnings; a shipyard – bold hopes will come to nothing.
Wreath – Of leaves – honour and fame; of flowers – heartache in love; a golden one – a beautiful path through life; of myrtle – luck in love and a wedding; weaving a wreath – you will help bring lovers together; of palm leaves – for single people it heralds marriage, for married couples healthy children; on a grave – an inheritance; wreaths joined together – twins; carrying one – honour and happiness; of oak – victory and a win; of spruce – you will hold a party.
Wrestling – Wrestling with a friend – mourning; with a child – misfortune; with a stranger – danger threatens you; with an animal – someone will slander you.
Wringing out – Wringing out washing – a bad deal.

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