Extended meaning of dream
LABEL ▪ LABORATORY ▪ LABOUR ▪ LABYRINTH ▪ LACE ▪ LADDER ▪ LAGOON / LAKE ▪ LAMB ▪ LAME ▪ LAMP ▪ LANCE ▪ LANDSCAPES ▪ LAPSE ▪ LASER ▪ LAST ▪ LAUGH ▪ LAUNCH ▪ LAUREL / BAY LEAVES ▪ LAW ▪ LEAD / LEADING / LEADER ▪ LEAD (METAL) ▪ LEAF / LEAVES ▪ LEAK ▪ LEAP ▪ LEARN ▪ LEASE ▪ LEAVE / LEAVING ▪ LECTURE ▪ LEFT ▪ LEGITIMATE ▪ LEGS ▪ LEND / LENDING / LOAN ▪ LENS ▪ LEOPARD ▪ LEPER ▪ LETTER ▪ LEVELS / LAYERS ▪ LEVER ▪ LIBRARY ▪ LID ▪ LIE / LYING ▪ LIFEBOAT ▪ LIFT ▪ LIFTS ▪ LIGHT ▪ LIGHTHOUSE ▪ LIGHTNING ▪ LILY ▪ LIMBS ▪ LIMP ▪ LINE ▪ LINEN ▪ LION ▪ LION ▪ LIQUID ▪ LIST ▪ LITTER ▪ LIVE / LIVING ▪ LIVER ▪ LIZARD ▪ LOCK / LOCKED ▪ LOCUST ▪ LOOM ▪ LORRY / VAN ▪ LOSE / LOSS / LOST ▪ LOTTERY ▪ LOW ▪ LUGGAGE ▪ LUMINOUS ▪ LUNGS ▪ LUXURY ▪ LYNCH ▪ LYNX ▪
Basic meaning of dream
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 labor ing under heavy burdens, denotes that you will be prosperous , but unjus t 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 un fruitful 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 go ld, you will entertain far-reach ing 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 enviro nment 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 financ ial s uccess will aid you on these journeys.
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.
Lame
For a woman to dream of seeing any one lame, foretells that her pleasures and hopes will be u nfruitful and disappointing. See Cripple.
Lament
To dream that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property, sign ifies great struggles and mu ch d istress, from whic h will sp ring causes for joy and personal gain. To lament the loss of relatives, denotes sickn ess or disappo in tments, which will bring you into closer harmony with companions, and will result in brighter prospects for the future.
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 deceptio n 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
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. See Fields ant Earth.
Lap
To dream of s itting 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 hu miliation 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 riends in some approaching dilemma. If it be thin and ill-looking, there will be dis tressing occurrenc es 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.
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. Laugh ing immoderately at some weird object, denotes d isappointment 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 satisfac torily, 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, po rtends rivalry and con tention.
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
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 d ream that she engages in a law suit, means she will be calumniated, and find enemies among friends. See Judge and Jury.
Lawyer
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. 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 adm iration. Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage.
Lead
To dream of lead, foretells poor success in any engagement. A lead mine, indicates th at your friends will look with s usp icion on your money making. Your sweetheart will s urprise 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 b y impatience you will br ing failure upon yourself and others.
Leaking
To dream of seeing a leak in anything, is usually significant of loss and vexations.
Leaping
For a young woman to dream of leaping over an obstruction, denotes that she will gain her desires after much struggling and opposition. See Jumping.
Learning
To dream of learning, denotes that you will take great interest in acquiring knowledge, and if you are ec ono mical 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 cong enial 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 neces sary for s uccessful accumulation of wealth.
Leaves
To dream of leaves, denotes happiness and wonderful imp rovemen tin your business. Withered leaves, ind icate false hopes and g loomy forebod ings 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 fr esh, she will come into a legacy and marry a wealthy and prepossessing husband.
Leeches
To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests. If they are applied to you for m edicinal 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 p ractising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so, signifies you will be placed in a position where your energy and power of plann ing will b e called into strenuous play to extricate yourself.
Legislature
To dream that you are a member of a legislature, foretells yo u will be vain of your possessions and will treat members of your family unkindly. You will have no real advancement.
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 th e 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 diffic ulties 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 yo u articles, or money, denotes prosperity and close friendships.
Lentil
If you dream of len tils, it denotes quarrels and unhealthy surroundings. For a young woman, this dream portends dissatisfaction with her lover, but parental advice will caus e her to accept the inevitable.
Leprosy
To dream that you are infected with this dread disease, foretells sickness, by which yo u will lose money and incurthe displeasure of others. If you see others afflicted thus, yo u will meet d iscouraging prospects and love will turn into indifference.
Letter-carrier
If you d ream of a letter-carrier coming with your letters, you will soon receive news of an unwelcome and an unpleasant character. To hear his whistle, deno tes the unexpec ted 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 anirk some 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 com panion, or perhaps it may be petty jealousy. For a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends s he will be the cause of her own early sickness or death. To gather it, denotes your superabundant ensitiveness, and that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigateddis tress 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 s cheme 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 disco ntented with your environments and associations and seek compan ionship 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 yo ur friends, and where you would have them believe that yo u 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 wo man 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-b oat, deno tes 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 s tranger who will co ntribute to your busines s 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 b y some undertaking resulting in nothing. To see a dim light, indicates partial success.
Lighthouse
If you see a lighthouse through a storm, difficulties an d 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.
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
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. 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 for tune 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.
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 privatio ns and unhealthful desires.
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 y ou for subsistence. To see others thus engaged, denotes trials for them in which youwill 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 fav ors, 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 arival; you will also make a pr osperous 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.
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.
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
For a woman to d ream 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. See Mirror.
Lord's Prayer
To dream of r epeating the Lord's Prayer, foretells that you are thr eatened with secret foes and will need the alliance and the sup port of friends to tide you over difficulties. To hear others repeat it, denotes the danger of some friend.
Louse
To dream of a louse, foretells that you will have uneasy feelings regarding your health, and an enemy will give you exasperating vexation. See Lice.
Lovely
Dreaming of lovely things, brings favor to all perso ns co nnected with you. For a lover to dream that his sweetheart is lovely of person and character, foretells for him a speed y 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.
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.
