Dream Dictionary: Dream Dictionary on Dreams; Cannon to Caterpillar

By Gustavus Hindman Miller

Dream Dictionary

Cannon

• This dream denotes that one's home and country are in danger of foreign intrusion, from which our youth will suffer from the perils of war.
• For a young woman to hear or see cannons, denotes she will be a soldier's wife and will have to bid him godspeed as he marches in defense of her and honor.
• The reader will have to interpret dreams of this character by the influences surrounding him, and by the experiences stored away in his subjective mind. If you have thought about cannons a great deal and you dream of them when there is no war, they are most likely to warn you against struggle and probable defeat. Or if business is manipulated by yourself successful engagements after much worry and ill luck may ensue.

Cannon-Ball

• This means that secret enemies are uniting against you. For a maid to see a cannon-ball, denotes that she will have a soldier sweetheart. For a youth to see a cannon-ball, denotes that he will be called upon to defend his country.

Canoe

• To paddle a canoe on a calm stream, denotes your perfect confidence in your own ability to conduct your business in a profitable way.
• To row with a sweetheart, means an early marriage and fidelity. To row on rough waters you will have to tame a shrew before you attain connubial bliss. Affairs in the business world will prove disappointing after you dream of rowing in muddy waters. If the waters are shallow and swift, a hasty courtship or stolen pleasures, from which there can be no lasting good, are indicated.
• Shallow, clear and calm waters in rowing, signifies happiness of a pleasing character, but of short duration.
• Water is typical of futurity in the dream realms. If a pleasant immediate future awaits the dreamer he will come in close proximity with clear water. Or if he emerges from disturbed watery elements into waking life the near future is filled with crosses for him.

Candy

• To dream of making candy, denotes profit accruing from industry.
• To dream of eating crisp, new candy, implies social pleasures and much love-making among the young and old. Sour candy is a sign of illness or that disgusting annoyances will grow out of confidences too long kept.
• To receive a box of bonbons, signifies to a young person that he or she will be the recipient of much adulation. It generally means prosperity. If you send a box you will make a proposition, but will meet with disappointment.

Canopy

• To dream of a canopy or of being beneath one, denotes that false friends are influencing you to undesirable ways of securing gain. You will do well to protect those in your care.

Cap

• For a woman to dream of seeing a cap, she will be invited to take part in some festivity.
• For a girl to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a cap on, denotes that she will be bashful and shy in his presence.
• To see a prisoner's cap, denotes that your courage is failing you in time of danger.
• To see a miner's cap, you will inherit a substantial competency.

Captive

• To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery to deal with, and if you cannot escape, that injury and misfortune will befall you.
• To dream of taking any one captive, you will join yourself to pursuits and persons of lowest status.
• For a young woman to dream that she is a captive, denotes that she will have a husband who will be jealous of her confidence in others; or she may be censured for her indiscretion.

Captain

• To dream of seeing a captain of any company, denotes your noblest aspirations will be realized. If a woman dreams that her lover is a captain, she will be much harassed in mind from jealousy and rivalry.

Cars

• To dream of seeing cars, denotes journeying and changing in quick succession. To get on one shows that travel which you held in contemplation will be made under different auspices than had been calculated upon.
• To miss one, foretells that you will be foiled in an attempt to forward your prospects.
• To get off of one, denotes that you will succeed with some interesting schemes which will fill you with self congratulations.
• To dream of sleeping-cars, indicates that your struggles to amass wealth is animated by the desire of gratifying selfish and lewd principles which should be mastered and controlled.
• To see street-cars in your dreams, denotes that some person is actively interested in causing you malicious trouble and disquiet.
• To ride on a car, foretells that rivalry and jealousy will enthrall your happiness.
• To stand on the platform of a street-car while it is running, denotes you will attempt to carry on an affair which will be extremely dangerous, but if you ride without accident you will be successful.
• If the platform is up high, your danger will be more apparent, but if low, you will barely accomplish your purpose.

Cardinal

• It is unlucky to dream you see a cardinal in his robes. You will meet such misfortunes as will necessitate your removal to distant or foreign lands to begin anew your ruined fortune. For a woman to dream this is a sign of her downfall through false promises. If priest or preacher is a spiritual adviser and his services are supposed to be needed, especially in the hour of temptation, then we find ourselves dreaming of him as a warning against approaching evil.

Cards

• If playing them in your dreams with others for social pastime, you will meet with fair realization of hopes that have long buoyed you up. Small ills will vanish. But playing for stakes will involve you in difficulties of a serious nature.
• If you lose at cards you will encounter enemies. If you win you will justify yourself in the eyes of the law, but will have trouble in so doing.
• If a young woman dreams that her sweetheart is playing at cards, she will have cause to question his good intentions.
• In social games, seeing diamonds indicate wealth; clubs, that your partner in life will be exacting, and that you may have trouble in explaining your absence at times; hearts denote fidelity and cosy surroundings; spades signify that you will be a widow and encumbered with a large estate.

Carnival

• To dream that you are participating in a carnival, portends that you are soon to enjoy some unusual pleasure or recreation. A carnival when masks are used, or when incongruous or clownish figures are seen, implies discord in the home; business will be unsatisfactory and love unrequited.

Cart

• To dream of riding in a cart, ill luck and constant work will employ your time if you would keep supplies for your family.
• To see a cart, denotes bad news from kindred or friends.
• To dream of driving a cart, you will meet with merited success in business and other aspirations.
• For lovers to ride together in a cart, they will be true in spite of the machinations of rivals.

Cartridge

• To dream of cartridges, foretells unhappy quarrels and dissensions.
• Some untoward fate threatens you or some one closely allied to you.
• If they are empty, there will be foolish variances in your associations.

Carving

• To dream of carving a fowl, indicates you will be poorly off in a worldly way. Companions will cause you vexation from continued ill temper.
• Carving meat, denotes bad investments, but, if a change is made, prospects will be brighter.

Carpet

• To see a carpet in a dream, denotes profit, and wealthy friends to aid you in need.
• To walk on a carpet, you will be prosperous and happy.
• To dream that you buy carpets, denotes great gain. If selling them, you will have cause to go on a pleasant journey, as well as a profitable one.
• For a young woman to dream of carpets, shows she will own a beautiful home and servants will wait upon her.

Carpenter

• To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest endeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime or so-called recreation.

Carriage

• To see a carriage, implies that you will be gratified, and that you will make visits.
• To ride in one, you will have a sickness that will soon pass, and you will enjoy health and advantageous positions.
• To dream that you are looking for a carriage, you will have to labor hard, but will eventually be possessed with a fair competency.

Carrot

To dream of carrots, portends prosperity and health For a young woman to eat them, denotes that she will contract an early marriage and be the mother of several hardy children.

Cask

• To see one filled, denotes prosperous times and feastings. If empty, your life will be void of any joy or consolation from outward influences.

Cash [32]

• To dream that you have plenty of cash, but that it has been borrowed, portends that you will be looked upon as a worthy man, but that those who come in close contact with you will find that you are mercenary and unfeeling.
• For a young woman to dream that she is spending borrowed money, foretells that she will be found out in her practice of deceit, and through this lose a prized friend.
• [32] See Money.

Cash Box

• To dream of a full cash box, denotes that favorable prospects will open around you. If empty, you will experience meager reimbursements.

Cashier

• To see a cashier in your dream, denotes that others will claim your possessions. If you owe any one, you will practice deceit in your designs upon some wealthy person.

Castle

• To dream of being in a castle, you will be possessed of sufficient wealth to make life as you wish. You have prospects of being a great traveler, enjoying contact with people of many nations.
• To see an old and vine-covered castle, you are likely to become romantic in your tastes, and care should be taken that you do not contract an undesirable marriage or engagement. Business is depressed after this dream.
• To dream that you are leaving a castle, you will be robbed of your possessions, or lose your lover or some dear one by death.

Castor Oil

• To dream of castor oil, denotes that you will seek to overthrow a friend who is secretly abetting your advancement.

Castoria

• To dream of castoria, denotes that you will fail to discharge some important duty, and your fortune will seemingly decline to low stages.

Cats

• To dream of a cat, denotes ill luck, if you do not succeed in killing it or driving it from your sight. If the cat attacks you, you will have enemies who will go to any extreme to blacken your reputation and to cause you loss of property. But if you succeed in banishing it, you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame.
• If you meet a thin, mean and dirty-looking cat, you will have bad news from the absent. Some friend lies at death's door; but if you chase it out of sight, your friend will recover after a long and lingering sickness.
• To hear the scream or the mewing of a cat, some false friend is using all the words and work at his command to do you harm.
• To dream that a cat scratches you, an enemy will succeed in wrenching from you the profits of a deal that you have spent many days making.
• If a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be influenced into some impropriety through the treachery of others.
• To dream of a clean white cat, denotes entanglements which, while seemingly harmless, will prove a source of sorrow and loss of wealth.
• When a merchant dreams of a cat, he should put his best energies to work, as his competitors are about to succeed in demolishing his standard of dealing, and he will be forced to other measures if he undersells others and still succeeds.
• To dream of seeing a cat and snake on friendly terms signifies the beginning of an angry struggle. It denotes that an enemy is being entertained by you with the intention of using him to find out some secret which you believe concerns yourself; uneasy of his confidences given, you will endeavor to disclaim all knowledge of his actions, as you are fearful that things divulged, concerning your private life, may become public.

Catechism

• To dream of the catechism, foretells that you will be offered a lucrative position, but the strictures will be such that you will be worried as to accepting it.

Caterpillar

• To see a caterpillar in a dream, denotes that low and hypocritical people are in your immediate future, and you will do well to keep clear of deceitful appearances. You may suffer a loss in love or business.
• To dream of a caterpillar, foretells you will be placed in embarrassing situations, and there will be small honor or gain to be expected.

Cattle [33]

• To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle contentedly grazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity and happiness through a congenial and pleasant companion.
• To see cattle lean and shaggy, and poorly fed, you will be likely to toil all your life because of misspent energy and dislike of details of work. Correct your habits after this dream.
• To see cattle stampeding, means that you will have to exert all the powers of command you have to keep your career in a profitable channel.
• To see a herd of cows at milking time, you will be the successful owner of wealth that many have worked to obtain. To a young woman this means that her affections will not suffer from the one of her choice.
• To dream of milking cows with udders well filled, great good fortune is in store for you. If the calf has stolen the milk, it signifies that you are about to lose your lover by slowness to show your reciprocity, or your property from neglect of business.
• To see young calves in your dream, you will become a great favorite in society and win the heart of a loyal person. For business, this dream indicates profit from sales. For a lover, the entering into bonds that will be respected. If the calves are poor, look for about the same, except that the object sought will be much harder to obtain.
• Long-horned and dark, vicious cattle, denote enemies.
• [33] See Calves.

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From "10 000 Dreams Interpreted - What's In A Dream; Dreams and Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations" by Gustavus Hindman Miller