The following dream meanings were originally published in a newspaper back in 1916.
Dream Meanings
Admiration
If you dream you admire any one else it is a very bad sign.
Author
To see one or more signifies that you will lose money; to dream of being one means misery and disappointed hope.
Banquet
To dream that you are at a banquet signifies that you should avoid pleasures which may cost you dear.
Boar
Success in life to him who kills it; if he only sees it, danger and misfortune.
Cabbage
Bad tidings.
Chestnuts
To eat them raw shows resolution; to eat them boiled, weakness.
Coffin
To dream of a coffin signifies that you will soon be married and own a house of your own.
Crown
To dream that you wear the crown or carry a crown of gold in your hand signifies honor and dignity.
Dispute
A bad sign if you are in the wrong.
Eating
To eat broiled meat, good fortune; to eat turnips, quarreling; to eat salad, sickness.
Fresh Eggs
Good news.
Elopement
Signifies an offer of marriage.
Fiddle
If you play upon it you will engage in desperate enterprises.
Heart
For a married man a bad dream.
Lawyer
To meet one brings bad tidings; if you speak to him you will lose some property.
Organ
To play it means the death of a relative.
Plays
To dream you see a comedy, farce, or other recreation signifies success in business. To see a tragedy acted signifies labor, loss of estate, and affliction.
Praise
To praise some one, useless lies; to be praised, impudent flattery.
Psalms
To be singing psalms indicates trouble in business.
Race
To dream one sees or runs a race is good to all except the sick.
Roast Meat
To dream of eating roast meat signifies sin and gluttony.
Salad
Sickness if it be eaten.
Sea
To dream of walking upon the sea is good to him that would travel; as also to a servant and to him who would take a wife, or hath a lawsuit. To dream you walk on the shore, or catch sea fish, is a bad dream.
Silverware
To buy it, good fortune; to sell it, good.
Stilts
To dream of being mounted on stilts is to be puffed up with pride.
Swine
To dream that you trade in swine signifies sickness. To dream you see a sow with a little of pigs denotes distress and a large family, without the means of providing for them.
Tobacco
Joy and pleasure; to chew it, trouble; to smoke it, bliss.
Tower
To dream of one, a long life.
Vegetables
To dream of eating them, misfortune.
Source: New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]), 29 Oct. 1916.
