``_And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren,
and said, `Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun
and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me_.'
''--Gen. xxxvii, 9.
_Label_.
To dream of a label, foretells you will let an enemy see the inside
of your private affairs, and will suffer from the negligence.
_Labor_.
To dream that you watch domestic animals laboring under heavy burdens,
denotes that you will be prosperous, but unjust to your servants,
or those employed by you.
To see men toiling, signifies profitable work, and robust health.
To labor yourself, denotes favorable outlook for any new enterprise,
and bountiful crops if the dreamer is interested in farming.
_Laboratory_.
To dream of being in a laboratory, denotes great energies wasted in unfruitful
enterprises when you might succeed in some more practical business.
If you think yourself an alchemist, and try to discover a process
to turn other things into gold, you will entertain far-reaching and
interesting projects, but you will fail to reach the apex of your ambition.
Wealth will prove a myth, and the woman you love will hold a false
position towards you.
_Labyrinth_.
If you dream of a labyrinth, you will find yourself entangled
in intricate and perplexing business conditions, and your wife
will make the home environment intolerable; children and sweethearts
will prove ill-tempered and unattractive.
If you are in a labyrinth of night or darkness, it foretells passing,
but agonizing sickness and trouble.
A labyrinth of green vines and timbers, denotes unexpected happiness
from what was seemingly a cause for loss and despair.
In a network, or labyrinth of railroads, assures you of long
and tedious journeys. Interesting people will be met,
but no financial success will aid you on these journeys.
_Lace_.
See to it, if you are a lover, that your sweetheart wears lace,
as this dream brings fidelity in love and a rise in position.
If a woman dreams of lace, she will be happy in the realization
of her most ambitious desires, and lovers will bow to her edict.
No questioning or imperiousness on their part.
If you buy lace, you will conduct an expensive establishment,
but wealth will be a solid friend.
If you sell laces, your desires will outrun your resources.
For a young girl to dream of making lace, forecasts that she will win
a handsome, wealthy husband. If she dreams of garnishing her wedding garments
with lace, she will be favored with lovers who will bow to her charms,
but the wedding will be far removed from her.
_Ladder_.[107]
To dream of a ladder being raised for you to ascend to some height,
your energetic and nervy qualifications will raise you into prominence
in business affairs.
To ascend a ladder, means prosperity and unstinted happiness.
To fall from one, denotes despondency and unsuccessful transactions
to the tradesman, and blasted crops to the farmer.
To see a broken ladder, betokens failure in every instance.
To descend a ladder, is disappointment in business, and unrequited desires.
To escape from captivity, or confinement, by means of a ladder,
you will be successful, though many perilous paths may intervene.
To grow dizzy as you ascend a ladder, denotes that you will not wear
new honors serenely. You are likely to become haughty and domineering
in your newly acquired position.
[107] See Hill, Ascend, or Fall.
_Ladle_.
To see a ladle in your dreams, denotes you will be fortunate in the selection
of a companion. Children will prove sources of happiness.
If the ladle is broken or uncleanly, you will have a grievous loss.
_Lagoon_.
To dream of a lagoon, denotes that you will be drawn into a whirlpool
of doubt and confusion through misapplication of your intelligence.
_Lake_.
For a young woman to dream that she is alone on a turbulent and muddy lake,
foretells many vicissitudes are approaching her, and she will regret
former extravagances, and disregard of virtuous teaching.
If the water gets into the boat, but by intense struggling she reaches
the boat-house safely, it denotes she will be under wrong persuasion,
but will eventually overcome it, and rise to honor and distinction.
It may predict the illness of some one near her.
If she sees a young couple in the same position as herself,
who succeed in rescuing themselves, she will find that some friend
has committed indiscretions, but will succeed in reinstating
himself in her favor.
To dream of sailing on a clear and smooth lake, with happy
and congenial companions, you will have much happiness,
and wealth will meet your demands.
A muddy lake, surrounded with bleak rocks and bare trees,
denotes unhappy terminations to business and affection.
A muddy lake, surrounded by green trees, portends that the moral in your
nature will fortify itself against passionate desires, and overcoming
the same will direct your energy into a safe and remunerative channel.
If the lake be clear and surrounded by barrenness, a profitable existence
will be marred by immoral and passionate dissipation.
To see yourself reflected in a clear lake, denotes coming joys
and many ardent friends.
To see foliaged trees reflected in the lake, you will enjoy to a satiety
Love's draught of passion and happiness.
To see slimy and uncanny inhabitants of the lake rise up and menace you,
denotes failure and ill health from squandering time, energy and health
on illicit pleasures. You will drain the utmost drop of happiness,
and drink deeply of Remorse's bitter concoction.
_Lamb_.[108]
To dream of lambs frolicing{sic} in green pastures, betokens chaste
friendships and joys. Bounteous and profitable crops to the farmers,
and increase of possessions for others.
To see a dead lamb, signifies sadness and desolation.
Blood showing on the white fleece of a lamb, denotes that innocent ones
will suffer from betrayal through the wrong doing of others.
A lost lamb, denotes that wayward people will be under your influence,
and you should be careful of your conduct.
To see lamb skins, denotes comfort and pleasure usurped from others.
To slaughter a lamb for domestic uses, prosperity will be gained
through the sacrifice of pleasure and contentment.
To eat lamb chops, denotes illness, and much anxiety over
the welfare of children.
To see lambs taking nourishment from their mothers, denotes happiness
through pleasant and intelligent home companions, and many lovable
and beautiful children.
To dream that dogs, or wolves devour lambs, innocent people will suffer
at the hands of insinuating and designing villains.
To hear the bleating of lambs, your generosity will be appealed to.
To see them in a winter storm, or rain, denotes disappointment
in expected enjoyment and betterment of fortune.
To own lambs in your dreams, signifies that your environments
will be pleasant and profitable.
If you carry lambs in your arms, you will be encumbered with
happy cares upon which you will lavish a wealth of devotion,
and no expense will be regretted in responding to appeals
from the objects of your affection.
To shear lambs, shows that you will be cold and mercenary.
You will be honest, but inhumane.
For a woman to dream that she is peeling the skin from a lamb,
and while doing so, she discovers that it is her child,
denotes that she will cause others sorrow which will also rebound
to her grief and loss.
``Fair prototype of innocence,
Sleep upon thy emerald bed,
No coming evil vents
A shade above thy head.''
[108] See Sheep.
_Lame_.[109]
For a woman to dream of seeing any one lame, foretells that her pleasures
and hopes will be unfruitful and disappointing.
[109] See Cripple.
_Lament_.
To dream that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property,
signifies great struggles and much distress, from which will spring
causes for joy and personal gain.
To lament the loss of relatives, denotes sickness or disappointments,
which will bring you into closer harmony with companions, and will result
in brighter prospects for the future.
_Lamp_.
To see lamps filled with oil, denotes the demonstration of business activity,
from which you will receive gratifying results.
Empty lamps, represent depression and despondency.
To see lighted lamps burning with a clear flame, indicates merited rise
in fortune and domestic bliss. If they give out a dull, misty radiance,
you will have jealousy and envy, coupled with suspicion, to combat,
in which you will be much pleased to find the right person to attack.
To drop a lighted lamp, your plans and hopes will abruptly
turn into failure.
If it explodes, former friends will unite with enemies in
damaging your interests.
Broken lamps, indicate the death of relatives or friends.
To light a lamp, denotes that you will soon make a change in your affairs,
which will lead to profit.
To carry a lamp, portends that you will be independent and
self-sustaining, preferring your own convictions above others.
If the light fails, you will meet with unfortunate conclusions,
and perhaps the death of friends or relatives.
If you are much affrighted, and throw a bewildering light from your window,
enemies will ensnare you with professions of friendship and interest
in your achievements.
To ignite your apparel from a lamp, you will sustain humiliation
from sources from which you expected encouragement and sympathy,
and your business will not be fraught with much good.
_Lamp-post_.
To see a lamp-post in your dreams, some stranger will prove your staunchiest
friend in time of pressing need.
To fall against a lamp-post, you will have deception to overcome,
or enemies will ensnare you.
To see a lamp-post across your path, you will have much adversity
in your life.
_Lance_.
To dream of a lance, denotes formidable enemies and injurious experiments.
To be wounded by a lance, error of judgment will cause you annoyance.
To break a lance, denotes seeming impossibilities will be overcome
and your desires will be fulfilled.
_Land_.[110]
To dream of land, when it appears fertile, omens good; but if sterile
and rocky, failure and dispondency is prognosticated.
To see land from the ocean, denotes that vast avenues of prosperity
and happiness will disclose themselves to you.
_Landau_.
To dream that you ride in a landau, with your friend or sweetheart,
denotes that incidents of a light, but pleasant character will pass
in rapid succession through your life.
If the vehicle is overturned, then pleasure will abruptly turn into woe.
[110] See Fields ant Earth.
_Lantern_.
To dream of seeing a lantern going before you in the darkness,
signifies unexpected affluence. If the lantern is suddenly lost
to view, then your success will take an unfavorable turn.
To carry a lantern in your dreams, denotes that your benevolence will win you
many friends. If it goes out, you fail to gain the prominence you wish.
If you stumble and break it, you will seek to aid others, and in so doing
lose your own station, or be disappointed in some undertaking.
To clean a lantern, signifies great possibilities are open to you.
To lose a lantern, means business depression, and disquiet in the home.
If you buy a lantern, it signifies fortunate deals.
For a young woman to dream that she lights her lover's lantern,
foretells for her a worthy man, and a comfortable home.
If she blows it out, by her own imprudence she will lose a chance
of getting married.
_Lap_.
To dream of sitting on some person's lap, denotes pleasant security
from vexing engagements. If a young woman dreams that she is holding
a person on her lap, she will be exposed to unfavorable criticism.
To see a serpent in her lap, foretells she is threatened with
humiliation at the hands of enemies. If she sees a cat in her lap,
she will be endangered by a seductive enemy.
_Lap-dog_.
To dream of a lap-dog, foretells you will be succored by friends
in some approaching dilemma If it be thin and ill-looking, there
will be distressing occurrences to detract from your prospects.
_Lap-robe_.
To dream of a lap-robe, indicates suspicious engagements will place
you under the surveillance of enemies or friends.
To lose one, your actions will be condemned by enemies to injure your affairs.
_Lard_.
To dream of lard, signifies a rise in fortune will soon gratify you.
For a woman to find her hand in melted lard, foretells her disappointment
in attempting to rise in social circles.
_Lark_.
To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment
of which you will throw off selfishness and cultivate kindly graces of mind.
To hear them singing as they fly, you will be very happy in a new change
of abode, and business will flourish.
To see them fall to the earth and singing as they fall, despairing gloom
will overtake you in pleasure's bewildering delights.
A wounded or dead lark, portends sadness or death.
To kill a lark, portends injury to innocence through wantonness.
If they fly around and light on you, Fortune will turn her promising
countenance towards you.
To catch them in traps, you will win honor and love easily.
To see them eating, denotes a plentiful harvest.
_Latch_.
To dream of a latch, denotes you will meet urgent appeals for aid,
to which you will respond unkindly. To see a broken latch,
foretells disagreements with your dearest friend.
Sickness is also foretold in this dream.
_Latin_.
To dream of studying this language, denotes victory and distinction
in your efforts to sustain your opinion on subjects of grave interest
to the public welfare.
_Laudanum_.
To dream that you take laudanum, signifies weakness of your own;
and that you will have a tendency to be unduly influenced by others.
You should cultivate determination.
To prevent others from taking this drug, indicates that you
will be the means of conveying great joy and good to people.
To see your lover taking laudanum through disappointment,
signifies unhappy affairs and the loss of a friend.
To give it, slight ailments will attack some member of your domestic circle.
_Laughing_.
To dream that you laugh and feel cheerful, means success in your undertakings,
and bright companions socially.
Laughing immoderately at some weird object, denotes disappointment and lack
of harmony in your surroundings.
To hear the happy laughter of children, means joy and health
to the dreamer.
To laugh at the discomfiture of others, denotes that you will wilfully
injure your friends to gratify your own selfish desires.
To hear mocking laughter, denotes illness and disappointing affairs.
_Laundry_.
To dream of laundering clothes, denotes struggles, but a final victory
in winning fortune. If the clothes are done satisfactorily, then your
endeavors will bring complete happiness. If they come out the reverse,
your fortune will fail to procure pleasure.
To see pretty girls at this work, you will seek pleasure out of your rank.
If a laundryman calls at your house, you are in danger of sickness,
or of losing something very valuable.
To see laundry wagons, portends rivalry and contention.
_Laurel_.
Dreaming of the laurel, brings success and fame. You will acquire
new possessions in love. Enterprises will be laden with gain.
For a young woman to wreath laurel about her lover's head,
denotes that she will have a faithful man, and one of fame
to woo her.
_Law and Lawsuits_.[111]
To dream of engaging in a lawsuit, warns you of enemies who are
poisoning public opinion against you. If you know that the suit
is dishonest on your part, you will seek to dispossess true owners
for your own advancement.
If a young man is studying law, he will make rapid rise
in any chosen profession.
For a woman to dream that she engages in a law suit, means she
will be calumniated, and find enemies among friends.
[111] See Judge and Jury.
_Lawns_.
To dream of walking upon well-kept lawns, denotes occasions for joy
and great prosperity.
To join a merry party upon a lawn, denotes many secular amusements,
and business engagements will be successfully carried on.
For a young woman to wait upon a green lawn for the coming of a friend
or lover, denotes that her most ardent wishes concerning wealth and
marriage will be gratified. If the grass be dead and the lawn marshy,
quarrels and separation may be expected.
To see serpents crawling in the grass before you, betrayal and cruel
insinuations will fill you with despair.
_Lawyer_.[112]
For a young woman to dream that she is connected in any way with a lawyer,
foretells that she will unwittingly commit indiscretions, which will subject
her to unfavorable and mortifying criticism.
[112] See Attorney.
_Lazy_.
To dream of feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake
in the formation of enterprises, and will suffer keen disappointment.
For a young woman to think her lover is lazy, foretells she will have bad luck
in securing admiration. Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage.
_Lead_.
To dream of lead, foretells poor success in any engagement.
A lead mine, indicates that your friends will look with suspicion
on your money making. Your sweetheart will surprise you with her
deceit and ill temper.
To dream of lead ore, foretells distress and accidents.
Business will assume a gloomy cast.
To hunt for lead, denotes discontentment, and a constant
changing of employment.
To melt lead, foretells that by impatience you will bring failure
upon yourself and others.
_Leaking_.
To dream of seeing a leak in anything, is usually significant
of loss and vexations.
_Leaping_.[113]
For a young woman to dream of leaping over an obstruction, denotes that she
will gain her desires after much struggling and opposition.
[113] See Jumping.
_Learning_.
To dream of learning, denotes that you will take great interest
in acquiring knowledge, and if you are economical of your time,
you will advance far into the literary world.
To enter halls, or places of learning, denotes rise from obscurity,
and finance will be a congenial adherent.
To see learned men, foretells that your companions will be
interesting and prominent.
For a woman to dream that she is associated in any way with learned people,
she will be ambitious and excel in her endeavors to rise into prominence.
_Leather_.
To dream of leather, denotes successful business and favorable
engagements with women. You will go into lucky speculations
if you dream that you are dressed in leather.
Ornaments of leather, denotes faithfulness in love and to the home.
Piles of leather, denotes fortune and happiness.
To deal in leather, signifies no change in the disposition of your engagements
is necessary for successful accumulation of wealth.
_Leaves_.
To dream of leaves, denotes happiness and wonderful improvement
in your business.
Withered leaves, indicate false hopes and gloomy forebodings will harass
your spirit into a whirlpool of despondency and loss.
If a young woman dreams of withered leaves, she will be left lonely
on the road to conjugality. Death is sometimes implied.
If the leaves are green and fresh, she will come into a legacy
and marry a wealthy and prepossessing husband.
_Ledger_.
To dream of keeping a ledger, you will have perplexities and disappointing
conditions to combat.
To dream that you make wrong entries on your ledger, you will have small
disputes and a slight loss will befall you.
To put a ledger into a safe, you will be able to protect your rights
under adverse circumstances.
To get your ledger misplaced, your interests will go awry through
neglect of duty.
To dream that your ledger gets destroyed by fire, you will suffer
through the carelessness of friends.
To dream that you have a woman to keep your ledger, you will lose
money trying to combine pleasure with business.
For a young woman to dream of ledgers, denotes she will have a solid
business man to make her a proposal of marriage.
To dream that your ledger has worthless accounts, denotes bad
management and losses; but if the accounts are good, then your
business will assume improved conditions.
_Leeches_.
To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests.
If they are applied to you for medicinal purposes, you will have a serious
illness tn your family (if you escape yourself).
To see them applied to others, denotes sickness or trouble to friends.
If they should bite you, there is danger for you in unexpected places,
and you should heed well this warning.
_Leeward_.
To dream of sailing leeward, denotes to the sailor a prosperous
and merry voyage. To others, a pleasant journey.
_Legerdemain_.
To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so,
signifies you will be placed in a position where your energy
and power of planning will be called into strenuous play
to extricate yourself.
_Legislature_.
To dream that you are a member of a legislature, foretells you will be
vain of your possessions and will treat members of your family unkindly.
You will have no real advancement.
_Legs_.
If you dream of admiring well-shaped feminine legs, you will lose
your judgment, and act very silly over some fair charmer.
To see misshapen legs, denotes unprofitable occupations
and ill-tempered comrades.
A wounded leg, foretells losses and agonizing attacks of malaria.
To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean
yourself in a false way to your friends.
If ulcers are on your legs, it signifies a drain on your income
to aid others.
To dream that you have three, or more, legs, indicates that more enterprises
are planned in your imagination than will ever benefit you.
If you can't use your legs, it portends poverty.
To have a leg amputated, you will lose valued friends, and the home
influence will render life unbearable.
For a young woman to admire her own legs, denotes vanity, and she
will be repulsed by the man she admires. If she has hairy legs,
she will dominate her husband.
If your own legs are clean and well shaped, it denotes a happy future
and devoted friends.
_Lemonade_.
If you drink lemonade in a dream, you will concur with others
in signifying some entertainment as a niggardly device to raise
funds for the personal enjoyment of others at your expense.
_Lemons_.
To dream of seeing lemons on their native trees among rich foliage,
denotes jealousy toward some beloved object, but demonstrations
will convince you of the absurdity of the charge.
To eat lemons, foretells humiliation and disappointments.
Green lemons, denotes sickness and contagion.
To see shriveled lemons, denotes divorce, if married,
and separation, to lovers.
_Lending_.
To dream that you are lending money, foretells difficulties in meeting
payments of debts and unpleasant influence in private.
To lend other articles, denotes impoverishment through generosity.
To refuse to lend things, you will be awake to your interests
and keep the respect of friends.
For others to offer to lend you articles, or money, denotes prosperity
and close friendships.
_Lentil_.
If you dream of lentils, it denotes quarrels and unhealthy surroundings.
For a young woman, this dream portends dissatisfaction with her lover,
but parental advice will cause her to accept the inevitable.
_Leopard_.
To dream of a leopard attacking you, denotes that while the future seemingly
promises fair, success holds many difficulties through misplaced confidence.
To kill one, intimates victory in your affairs.
To see one caged, denotes that enemies will surround but fail
to injure you.
To see leopards in their native place trying to escape from you,
denotes that you will be embarrassed in business or love,
but by persistent efforts you will overcome difficulties.
To dream of a leopard's skin, denotes that your interests will be endangered
by a dishonest person who will win your esteem.
_Leprosy_.
To dream that you are infected with this dread disease, foretells sickness,
by which you will lose money and incur the displeasure of others.
If you see others afflicted thus, you will meet discouraging
prospects and love will turn into indifference.
_Letter_.
To dream that you see a registered letter, foretells that some money
matters will disrupt long-established relations.
For a young woman to dream that she receives such a letter,
intimates that she will be offered a competency, but it will
not be on strictly legal, or moral grounds; others may play
towards her a dishonorable part.
To the lover, this bears heavy presentments of disagreeable mating.
His sweetheart will covet other gifts than his own.
To dream of an anonymous letter, denotes that you will receive injury
from an unsuspected source.
To write one, foretells that you will be jealous of a rival,
whom you admit to be your superior.
To dream of getting letters bearing unpleasant news, denotes difficulties
or illness. If the news is of a joyous character, you will have many
things to be thankful for. If the letter is affectionate, but is written
on green, or colored, paper, you will be slighted in love and business.
Despondency will envelop you. Blue ink, denotes constancy and affection,
also bright fortune.
Red colors in a letter, imply estrangements through suspicion and jealousy,
but this may be overcome by wise maneuvering of the suspected party.
If a young woman dreams that she receives a letter from her lover and places
it near her heart, she will be worried very much by a good-looking rival.
Truthfulness is often rewarded with jealousy.
If you fail to read the letter, you will lose something either
in a business or social way.
Letters nearly always bring worry.
To have your letter intercepted, rival enemies are working to defame you.
To dream of trying to conceal a letter from your sweetheart or wife,
intimates that you are interested in unworthy occupations.
To dream of a letter with a black border, signifies distress
and the death of some relative.
To receive a letter written on black paper with white ink,
denotes that gloom and disappointment will assail you, and friendly
interposition will render small relief. If the letter passes between
husband and wife, it means separation under sensational charges.
If lovers, look for quarrels and threats of suicide.
To business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.
To dream that you write a letter, denotes that you will be hasty
in condemning some one on suspicion, and regrets will follow.
A torn letter, indicates that hopeless mistakes may ruin your reputation.
To receive a letter by hand, denotes that you are acting ungenerously
towards your companions or sweetheart, and you also are not upright
in your dealings.
To dream often of receiving a letter from a friend, foretells his arrival,
or you will hear from him by letter or otherwise.
_Letter-carrier_.
If you dream of a letter-carrier coming with your letters, you will soon
receive news of an unwelcome and an unpleasant character.
To hear his whistle, denotes the unexpected arrival of a visitor.
If he passes without your mail, disappointment and sadness will befall you.
If you give him letters to mail, you will suffer injury through
envy or jealousy.
To converse with a letter-carrier, you will implicate yourself
in some scandalous proceedings.
_Letter-file_.
To see a letter-file in your dreams, is significant of important news,
which will cause you an irksome journey. For a woman, this dream implies
distressful news and unfaithful friends.
_Lettuce_.
To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy
some greatly desired good, after an unimportant embarrassment.
If you eat lettuce, illness will separate you from your lover or companion,
or perhaps it may be petty jealousy.
For a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends she will be the cause
of her own early sickness or death.
To gather it, denotes your superabundant sensitiveness,
and that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigated
distress and pain.
To buy lettuce, denotes that you will court your own downfall.
_Liar_.
To dream of thinking people are liars, foretells you will lose
faith in some scheme which you had urgently put forward.
For some one to call you a liar, means you will have vexations
through deceitful persons.
For a woman to think her sweetheart a liar, warns her that her unbecoming
conduct is likely to lose her a valued friend.
_Library_.
To dream that you are in a library, denotes that you will grow
discontented with your environments and associations and seek
companionship in study and the exploration of ancient customs.
To find yourself in a library for other purpose than study,
foretells that your conduct will deceive your friends, and where
you would have them believe that you had literary aspirations,
you will find illicit assignations.
_Lice_.
A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress.
It often implies offensive ailments.
Lice on stock, foretells famine and loss.
To have lice on your body, denotes that you will conduct yourself
unpleasantly with your acquaintances.
To dream of catching lice, foretells sickness, and that you
will cultivate morbidity.
_License_.
To dream of a license, is an omen of disputes and loss.
Married women will exasperate your cheerfulness. For a woman
to see a marriage license, foretells that she will soon enter
unpleasant bonds, which will humiliate her pride.
_Life-boat_.
To dream of being in a life-boat, denotes escape from threatened evil.
To see a life-boat sinking, friends will contribute to your distress.
To be lost in a life-boat, you will be overcome with trouble,
in which your friends will be included to some extent.
If you are saved, you will escape a great calamity.
_Life-insurance Man_.
To see life-insurance men in a dream, means that you are soon
to meet a stranger who will contribute to your business interests,
and change in your home life is foreshadowed, as interests
will be mutual.
If they appear distorted or unnatural, the dream is more
unfortunate than good.
_Light_.
If you dream of light, success will attend you. To dream of weird light,
or if the light goes out, you will be disagreeably surprised by some
undertaking resulting in nothing.
To see a dim light, indicates partial success.
_Lighthouse_.
If you see a lighthouse through a storm, difficulties and grief will
assail you, but they will disperse before prosperity and happiness.
To see a lighthouse from a placid sea, denotes calm joys
and congenial friends.
_Lightning_.
Lightning in your dreams, foreshadows happiness and prosperity
of short duration.
If the lightning strikes some object near you, and you feel
the shock, you will be damaged by the good fortune of a friend,
or you may be worried by gossipers and scandalmongers.
To see livid lightning parting black clouds, sorrow and difficulties
will follow close on to fortune.
If it strikes you, unexpected sorrows will overwhelm you in business or love.
To see the lightning above your head, heralds the advent of joy and gain.
To see lightning in the south, fortune will hide herself from you for awhile.
If in the southwest, luck will come your way. In the west,
your prospects will be brighter than formally. In the north,
obstacles will have to be removed before your prospects will
brighten up. If in the east, you will easily win favors and fortune.
Lightning from dark and ominous-looking clouds, is always
a forerunner of threats, of loss and of disappointments.
Business men should stay close to business, and women near
their husbands or mothers; children and the sick should be
looked after closely.
_Lightning-rod_.
To see a lightning-rod, denotes that threatened destruction to some
cherished work will confront you. To see one change into a serpent,
foretells enemies will succeed in their schemes against you.
If the lightning strikes one, there will be an accident or sudden
news to give you sorrow.
If you are having one put up, it is a warning to beware how you begin
a new enterprise, as you will likely be overtaken by disappointment.
To have them taken down, you will change your plans and
thereby further your interests. To see many lightning rods,
indicates a variety of misfortunes.
_Lily_.
To dream of a lily, denotes much chastisement through illness and death.
To see lilies growing with their rich foliage, denotes early marriage
to the young and subsequent separation through death.
To see little children among the flowers, indicates sickness
and fragile constitutions to these little ones.
For a young woman to dream of admiring, or gathering, lilies,
denotes much sadness coupled with joy, as the one she loves
will have great physical suffering, if not an early dissolution.
If she sees them withered, sorrow is even nearer than she
could have suspected.
To dream that you breathe the fragrance of lilies, denotes that sorrow
will purify and enhance your mental qualities.
_Lime_.
To dream of lime, foretells that disaster will prostrate you for a time,
but you will revive to greater and richer prosperity than before.
_Lime-kiln_.
To dream of a lime-kiln, foretells the immediate future holds
no favor for speculations in love or business
_Limes_.
To dream of eating limes, foretells continued sickness and adverse straits.
_Limp_.[114]
To dream that you limp in your walk, denotes that a small worry will
unexpectedly confront you, detracting much from your enjoyment.
To see others limping, signifies that you will be naturally offended
at the conduct of a friend. Small failures attend this dream.
[114] See Cripple and Lamed.
_Linen_.
To see linen in your dream, augurs prosperity and enjoyment.
If a person appears to you dressed in linen garments, you will shortly
be the recipient of joyful tidings in the nature of an inheritance.
If you are apparelled in clean, fine linen, your fortune and fullest
enjoyment in life is assured. If it be soiled, sorrow and ill luck
will be met with occasionally, mingled with the good in your life.
_Linseed Oil_.
To see linseed oil in your dreams, denotes your impetuous extravagance
will be checked by the kindly interference of a friend.
_Lion_.
To dream of a lion, signifies that a great force is driving you.
If you subdue the lion, you will be victorious in any engagement.
If it overpowers you, then you will be open to the successful
attacks of enemies.
To see caged lions, denotes that your success depends upon your ability
to cope with opposition.
To see a man controlling a lion in its cage, or out denotes
success in business and great mental power. You will be favorably
regarded by women.
To see young lions, denotes new enterprises, which will bring
success if properly attended.
For a young woman to dream of young lions, denotes new and fascinating lovers.
For a woman to dream that she sees Daniel in the lions' den, signifies that by
her intellectual qualifications and personal magnetism she will win fortune
and lovers to her highest desire.
To hear the roar of a lion, signifies unexpected advancement
and preferment with women.
To see a lion's head over you, showing his teeth by snarls,
you are threatened with defeat in your upward rise to power.
To see a lion's skin, denotes a rise to fortune and happiness.
To ride one, denotes courage and persistency in surmounting difficulties.
To dream you are defending your children from a lion with a
pen-knife, foretells enemies will threaten to overpower you,
and will well nigh succeed if you allow any artfulness to persuade
you for a moment from duty and business obligations.
_Lips_.
To dream of thick, unsightly lips, signifies disagreeable encounters,
hasty decision, and ill temper in the marriage relation.
Full, sweet, cherry lips, indicates harmony and affluence.
To a lover, it augurs reciprocation in love, and fidelity.
Thin lips, signifies mastery of the most intricate subjects.
Sore, or swollen lips, denotes privations and unhealthful desires.
_Liquor_.
To dream of buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon
which you have no legal claim If you sell it, you will be criticised
for niggardly benevolence.
To drink some, you will come into doubtful possession of wealth,
but your generosity will draw around you convivial friends,
and women will seek to entrance and hold you.
To see liquor in barrels, denotes prosperity, but unfavorable
tendency toward making home pleasant.
If in bottles, fortune will appear in a very tangible form.
For a woman to dream of handling, or drinking liquor,
foretells for her a happy Bohemian kind of existence.
She will be good natured but shallow minded. To treat others,
she will be generous to rivals, and the indifference of lovers
or husband will not seriously offset her pleasures or contentment.
_Liver_.
To dream of a disordered liver, denotes a querulous person will be your mate,
and fault-finding will occupy her time, and disquiet will fill your hours.
To dream of eating liver, indicates that some deceitful person
has installed himself in the affection of your sweetheart.
_Lizard_.
To dream of lizards, foretells attacks upon you by enemies.
If you kill a lizard, you will regain your lost reputation or fortune;
but if it should escape, you will meet vexations and crosses
in love and business.
For a woman to dream that a lizard crawls up her skirt,
or scratches her, she will have much misfortune and sorrow.
Her husband will be a victim to invalidism and she will be left
a widow, and little sustenance will be eked out by her own labors.
_Load_.
To dream that you carry a load, signifies a long existence filled
with labors of love and charity.
To fall under a load, denotes your inability to attain comforts
that are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence.
To see others thus engaged, denotes trials for them in which you
will be interested.
_Loadstone_.
To dream of a loadstone, denotes you will make favorable
opportunities for your own advancement in a material way.
For a young woman to think a loadstone is attracting her,
is an omen of happy changes in her family.
_Loaves_.
To dream of loaves of bread, denotes frugality. If they be of cake,
the dreamer has cause to rejoice over his good fortune, as love
and wealth will wait obsequiously upon you.
Broken loaves, bring discontent and bickerings between those who love.
To see loaves multiply phenomenally, prognosticates great success.
Lovers will be happy in their chosen ones.
_Lobster_.
To dream of seeing lobsters, denotes great favors, and riches
will endow you.
If you eat them, you will sustain contamination by associating too freely
with pleasure-seeking people.
If the lobsters are made into a salad, success will not change
your generous nature, but you will enjoy to the fullest your
ideas of pleasure.
To order a lobster, you will hold prominent positions and
command many subordinates.
_Lock_.
To dream of a lock, denotes bewilderment. If the lock works at your command,
or efforts, you will discover that some person is working you injury.
If you are in love, you will find means to aid you in overcoming a rival;
you will also make a prosperous journey.
If the lock resists your efforts, you will be derided and scorned
in love and perilous voyages will bring to you no benefit.
To put a lock upon your fiance'e's neck and arm, foretells that you
are distrustful of her fidelity, but future episodes will disabuse
your mind of doubt.
_Locket_.
If a young woman dreams that her lover places a locket around
her neck, she will be the recipient of many beautiful offerings,
and will soon be wedded, and lovely children will crown her life.
If she should lose a locket, death will throw sadness into her life.
If a lover dreams that his sweetheart returns his locket,
he will confront disappointing issues. The woman he loves will
worry him and conduct herself in a displeasing way toward him.
If a woman dreams that she breaks a locket, she will have a changeable
and unstable husband, who will dislike constancy in any form,
be it business or affection,
_Lockjaw_.
To dream that you have lockjaw, signifies there is trouble ahead
for you, as some person is going to betray your confidence.
For a woman to see others with lockjaw, foretells her friends will
unconsciously detract from her happiness by assigning her unpleasant tasks.
If stock have it, you will lose a friend.
_Locomotive_.
To dream of a locomotive running with great speed, denotes a rapid rise
in fortune, and foreign travel. If it is disabled, then many vexations
will interfere with business affairs, and anticipated journeys will be laid
aside through the want of means.
To see one completely demolished, signifies great distress
and loss of property.
To hear one coming, denotes news of a foreign nature.
Business will assume changes that will mean success to all classes.
To hear it whistle, you will be pleased and surprised at the appearance
of a friend who has been absent, or an unexpected offer, which means
preferment to you.
_Locust_.
To dream of locusts, foretells discrepancies will be found
in your business, for which you will worry and suffer.
For a woman, this dream foretells she will bestow her affections
upon ungenerous people.
_Lodger_.
For a woman to dream that she has lodgers, foretells she will
be burdened with unpleasant secrets. If one goes away without
paying his bills, she will have unexpected trouble with men.
For one to pay his bill, omens favor and accumulation of money.
_Looking-glass_.[115]
For a woman to dream of a looking-glass, denotes that she is soon
to be confronted with shocking deceitfulness and discrepancies,
which may result in tragic scenes or separations.
[115] See Mirror.
_Loom_.
To dream of standing by and seeing a loom operated by a stranger, denotes much
vexation and useless irritation from the talkativeness of those about you.
Some disappointment with happy expectations are coupled with this dream.
To see good-looking women attending the loom, denotes unqualified success
to those in love. It predicts congenial pursuits to the married.
It denotes you are drawing closer together in taste.
For a woman to dream of weaving on an oldtime loom, signifies that she
will have a thrifty husband and beautiful children will fill her life
with happy solicitations.
To see an idle loom, denotes a sulky and stubborn person,
who will cause you much anxious care.
_Lord's Prayer_.
To dream of repeating the Lord's Prayer, foretells that you are threatened
with secret foes and will need the alliance and the support of friends
to tide you over difficulties.
To hear others repeat it, denotes the danger of some friend.
_Lottery_.
To dream of a lottery, and that you are taking great interest
in the drawing, you will engage in some worthless enterprise,
which will cause you to make an unpropitious journey.
If you hold the lucky number, you will gain in a speculation
which will perplex and give you much anxiety.
To see others winning in a lottery, denotes convivialities and amusements,
bringing many friends together.
If you lose in a lottery, you will be the victim of designing persons.
Gloomy depressions in your affairs will result.
For a young woman to dream of a lottery in any way, denotes that
her careless way of doing things will bring her disappointment,
and a husband who will not be altogether reliable or constant.
To dream of a lottery, denotes you will have unfavorable friendships
in business. Your love affairs will produce temporary pleasure.
_Louse_.[116]
To dream of a louse, foretells that you will have uneasy feelings regarding
your health, and an enemy will give you exasperating vexation.
[116] See Lice.
_Love_.
To dream of loving any object, denotes satisfaction with
your present environments.
To dream that the love of others fills you with happy forebodings,
successful affairs will give you contentment and freedom from the anxious
cares of life. If you find that your love fails, or is not reciprocated,
you will become despondent over some conflicting question arising in your
mind as to whether it is best to change your mode of living or to marry
and trust fortune for the future advancement of your state.
For a husband or wife to dream that their companion is loving,
foretells great happiness around the hearthstone, and bright
children will contribute to the sunshine of the home.
To dream of the love of parents, foretells uprightness in character
and a continual progress toward fortune and elevation.
The love of animals, indicates contentment with what you possess,
though you may not think so. For a time, fortune will crown you.
_Lovely_.
Dreaming of lovely things, brings favor to all persons connected with you.
For a lover to dream that his sweetheart is lovely of person and character,
foretells for him a speedy and favorable marriage.
If through the vista of dreams you see your own fair loveliness,
fate bids you, with a gleaming light, awake to happiness.
_Lozenges_.
To dream of lozenges, foretells success in small matters.
For a woman to eat or throw them away, foretells her life
will be harassed by little spites from the envious.
_Lucky_.
To dream of being lucky, is highly favorable to the dreamer.
Fulfilment of wishes may be expected and pleasant duties will
devolve upon you.
To the despondent, this dream forebodes an uplifting and a
renewal of prosperity.
_Luggage_.
To dream of luggage, denotes unpleasant cares. You will be encumbered
with people who will prove distasteful to you.
If you are carrying your own luggage, you will be so full of your own
distresses that you will be blinded to the sorrows of others.
To lose your luggage, denotes some unfortunate speculation or family
dissensions To the unmarried, it foretells broken engagements.
_Lumber_.
To dream of lumber, denotes many difficult tasks and but little
remuneration or pleasure.
To see piles of lumber burning, indicates profit from an unexpected source.
To dream of sawing lumber, denotes unwise transactions and unhappiness.
_Lute_.
To dream of playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends.
Pleasant occupations follow the dreaming of hearing the music
of a lute.
_Luxury_.
To dream that you are surrounded by luxury, indicates much wealth,
but dissipation and love of self will reduce your income.
For a poor woman to dream that she enjoys much luxury, denotes an early
change in her circumstances.
_Lying_.
To dream that you are lying to escape punishment, denotes that you will act
dishonorably towards some innocent person.
Lying to protect a friend from undeserved chastisement, denotes that
you will have many unjust criticisms passed upon your conduct,
but you will rise above them and enjoy prominence.
To hear others lying, denotes that they are seeking to entrap you. Lynx.
To dream of seeing a lynx, enemies are undermining your business
and disrupting your home affairs. For a woman, this dream indicates
that she has a wary woman rivaling her in the affections of her lover.
If she kills the lynx, she will overcome her rival.
_Lyre_.
To dream of listening to the music of a lyre, foretells chaste pleasures
and congenial companionship. Business will run smoothly.
For a young woman to dream of playing on one, denotes that she will enjoy
the undivided affection of a worthy man.