Interpretation of dreams beginning with w
writing .[246] To dream that you are writing, foretells that you will make a mistake which will almost prove your undoing. To see writing, denotes that you will be upbraided for your careless conduct and a lawsuit may cause you embarrassment. To try to read strange writing, signifies that you will escape enemies only by making no new speculation after this dream. [246] See Letters. Y. `` |
wrecks .[245] To see a wreck in your dream, foretells that you will be harassed with fears of destitution or sudden failure in business. [245] See other like words. |
wreath . To dream that you see a wreath of fresh flowers, denotes that great opportunities for enriching yourself will soon present themselves before you. A withered wreath bears sickness and wounded love. To see a bridal wreath, foretells a happy ending to uncertain engagements. |
wound . To dream that you are wounded, signals distress and an unfavorable turn in business. To see others wounded, denotes that injustice will be accorded you by your friends. To relieve or dress a wound, signifies that you will have occasion to congratulate yourself on your good fortune. |
worms . To dream of worms, denotes that you will be oppressed by the low intriguing of disreputable persons. For a young woman to dream they crawl on her, foretells that her aspirations will always tend to the material If she kills or throws them off, she will shake loose from the material lethargy and seek to live in morality and spirituality. To use them in your dreams as fish bait, foretells that by your ingenuity you will use your enemies to good advantage. |
workshop . To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use extraordinary schemes to undermine your enemies. |
work . To dream that you are hard at work, denotes that you will win merited success by concentration of energy. To see others at work, denotes that hopeful conditions will surround you. To look for work, means that you will be benefited by some unaccountable occurrence. |
wool . To dream of wool, is a pleasing sign of prosperous opportunities to expand your interests. To see soiled, or dirty wool, foretells that you will seek employment with those who detest your principles. |
wood pile . To dream of a wood pile, denotes unsatisfactory business and misunderstandings in love. |
woods . To dream of woods, brings a natural change in your affairs. If the woods appear green, the change will be lucky. If stripped of verdure, it will prove calamitous. To see woods on fire, denotes that your plans will reach satisfactory maturity Prosperity will beam with favor upon you. To dream that you deal in firewood, denotes that you will win fortune by determined struggle. |
women . To dream of women, foreshadows intrigue. To argue with one, foretells that you will be outwitted and foiled. To see a dark haired woman with blue eyes and a pug nose, definitely determines your withdrawal from a race in which you stood a showing for victory If she has brown eyes and a Roman nose, you will be cajoled into a dangerous speculation If she has auburn hair with this combination, it adds to your perplexity and anxiety. If she is a blonde, you will find that all your engagements will be pleasant and favorable to your inclinations. |
wolf . To dream of a wolf, shows that you have a thieving person in your employ, who will also betray secrets. To kill one, denotes that you will defeat sly enemies who seek to overshadow you with disgrace To hear the howl of a wolf, discovers to you a secret alliance to defeat you in honest competition. |
wizard . To dream of a wizard, denotes you are going to have a big family, which will cause you much inconvenience as well as displeasure. For young people, this dream implies loss and broken engagements. |
witness . To dream that you bear witness against others, signifies you will have great oppression through slight causes. If others bear witness against you, you will be compelled to refuse favors to friends in order to protect your own interest. If you are a witness for a guilty person, you will be implicated in a shameful affair. |
witch . To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment, but it will eventually rebound to your mortification. Business will suffer prostration if witches advance upon you, home affairs may be disappointing. |
wisdom . To dream you are possessed of wisdom, signifies your spirit will be brave under trying circumstances, and you will be able to overcome these trials and rise to prosperous living. If you think you lack wisdom, it implies you are wasting your native talents. |
wire . To dream of wire, denotes that you will make frequent but short journeys which will be to your disparagement. Old or rusty wire, signifies that you will be possessed of a bad temper, which will give troubles to your kindred. To see a wire fence in your dreams, foretells that you will be cheated in some trade you have in view. |
winter . To dream of winter, is a prognostication of ill health and dreary prospects for the favorable progress of fortune. After this dream your efforts will not yield satisfactory results. |
wings . To dream that you have wings, foretells that you will experience grave fears for the safety of some one gone on a long journey away from you. To see the wings of fowls or birds, denotes that you will finally overcome adversity and rise to wealthy degrees and honor. |
wine glass . To dream of a wine glass, foretells that a disappointment will affect you seriously, as you will fail to see anything pleasing until shocked into the realization of trouble. |
wine cellar . To dream of a wine cellar, foretells superior amusements or pleasure will come in your way, to be disposed of at your bidding. |
wine . To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships. To dream of breaking bottles of wine, foretells that your love and passion will border on excess. To see barrels of wine, prognosticates great luxury To pour it from one vessel into another, signifies that your enjoyments will be varied and you will journey to many notable places. To dream of dealing in wine denotes that your occupation will be remunerative. For a young woman to dream of drinking wine, indicates she will marry a wealthy gentleman, but withal honorable. |
window . To see windows in your dreams, is an augury of fateful culmination to bright hopes You will see your fairest wish go down in despair. Fruitless endeavors will be your portion. To see closed windows is a representation of desertion. If they are broken, you will be hounded by miserable suspicions of disloyalty from those you love. To sit in a window, denotes that you will be the victim of folly. To enter a house through a window, denotes that you will be found out while using dishonorable means to consummate a seemingly honorable purpose. To escape by one, indicates that you will fall into a trouble whose toils will hold you unmercifully close. To look through a window when passing and strange objects appear, foretells that you will fail in your chosen avocation and lose the respect for which you risked health and contentment. |
windmill . To see a windmill in operation in your dreams, foretells abundant accumulation of fortune and marked contentment To see one broken or idle, signifies adversity coming unawares. |
wind . To dream of the wind blowing softly and sadly upon you, signifies that great fortune will come to you through bereavement. If you hear the wind soughing, denotes that you will wander in estrangement from one whose life is empty without you. To walk briskly against a brisk wind, foretells that you will courageously resist temptation and pursue fortune with a determination not easily put aside For the wind to blow you along against your wishes, portends failure in business undertakings and disappointments in love. If the wind blows you in the direction you wish to go you will find unexpected and helpful allies, or that you have natural advantages over a rival or competitor. |
willow . To dream of willows, foretells that you will soon make a sad journey, but you will be consoled in your grief by faithful friends. |
will . To dream you are making your will, is significant of momentous trials and speculations. For a wife or any one to think a will is against them, portends that they will have disputes and disorderly proceedings to combat in some event soon to transpire. If you fail to prove a will, you are in danger of libelous slander. To lose one is unfortunate for your business. To destroy one, warns you that you are about to be a party to treachery and deceit. |
wild . To dream that you are running about wild, foretells that you will sustain a serious fall or accident. To see others doing so, denotes unfavorable prospects will cause you worry and excitement. |
wig . To dream you wear a wig, indicates that you will soon make an unpropitious change. To lose a wig, you will incur the derision and contempt of enemies. To see others wearing wigs, is a sign of treachery entangling you. |
wife . To dream of your wife, denotes unsettled affairs and discord in the home. To dream that your wife is unusually affable, denotes that you will receive profit from some important venture in trade. For a wife to dream her husband whips her, foretells unlucky influences will cause harsh criticism in the home and a general turmoil will ensue. |
widow . To dream that you are a widow, foretells that you will have many troubles through malicious persons. For a man to dream that he marries a widow, denotes he will see some cherished undertaking crumble down in disappointment. |
whitewash . To dream that you are whitewashing, foretells that you will seek to reinstate yourself with friends by ridding yourself of offensive habits and companions. For a young woman, this dream is significant of well laid plans to deceive others and gain back her lover who has been estranged by her insinuating bearing toward him. |
whistle . To hear a whistle in your dream, denotes that you will be shocked by some sad intelligence, which will change your plans laid for innocent pleasure. To dream that you are whistling, foretells a merry occasion in which you expect to figure largely This dream for a young woman indicates indiscreet conduct and failure to obtain wishes is foretold. |
whispering . To dream of whispering, denotes that you will be disturbed by the evil gossiping of people near you. To hear a whisper coming to you as advice or warning, foretells that you stand in need of aid and counsel. |
whisky . To dream of whisky in bottles, denotes that you will be careful of your interests, protecting them with energy and watchfulness, thereby adding to their proportion. To drink it alone, foretells that you will sacrifice your friends to your selfishness. To destroy whisky, you will lose your friends by your ungenerous conduct. Whisky is not fraught with much good Disappointment in some form will likely appear. To see or drink it, is to strive and reach a desired object after many disappointments If you only see it, you will never obtain the result hoped and worked for. |
whirlwind . To dream that you are in the path of a whirlwind, foretells that you are confronting a change which threatens to overwhelm you with loss and calamity. For a young woman to dream that she is caught in a whirlwind and has trouble to keep her skirts from blowing up and entangling her waist, denotes that she will carry on a secret flirtation and will be horrified to find that scandal has gotten possession of her name and she will run a close risk of disgrace and ostracism. |
whirlpool . To dream of a whirlpool, denotes that great danger is imminent in your business, and, unless you are extremely careful, your reputation will be seriously blackened by some disgraceful intrigue. |
whip . To dream of a whip, signifies unhappy dissensions and unfortunate and formidable friendships. |
whetstone . To dream of a whetstone, is significant of sharp worries and close attention is needed in your own affairs, if you avoid difficulties. You are likely to be forced into an uncomfortable journey. |
wheels . To see swiftly rotating wheels in your dreams, foretells that you will be thrifty and energetic in your business and be successful in pursuits of domestic bliss. To see idle or broken wheels, proclaims death or absence of some one in your household. |
wheat . To see large fields of growing wheat in your dreams, denotes that your interest will take on encouraging prospects. If the wheat is ripe, your fortune will be assured and love will be your joyous companion. To see large clear grains of wheat running through the thresher, foretells that prosperity has opened her portals to the fullest for you. To see it in sacks or barrels, your determination to reach the apex of success is soon to be crowned with victory and your love matters will be firmly grounded. If your granary is not well covered and you see its contents getting wet, foretells that while you have amassed a fortune, you have not secured your rights and you will see your interests diminishing by the hand of enemies. If you rub wheat from the head into your hand and eat it, you will labor hard for success and will obtain and make sure of your rights. To dream that you climb a steep hill covered with wheat and think you are pulling yourself up by the |
whalebone . To see or work with whalebone in your dreams, you still form an alliance which will afford you solid benefit. |
whale . To dream of seeing a whale approaching a ship, denotes that you will have a struggle between duties, and will be threatened with loss of property. If the whale is demolished, you will happily decide between right and inclination, and will encounter pleasing successes. If you see a whale overturn a ship, you will be thrown into a whirlpool of disasters. |
wet . To dream that you are wet, denotes that a possible pleasure may involve you in loss and disease You are warned to avoid the blandishments of seemingly well meaning people. For a young woman to dream that she is soaking wet, portends that she will be disgracefully implicated in some affair with a married man. |
welcome . To dream that you receive a warm welcome into any society, foretells that you will become distinguished among your acquaintances and will have deference shown you by strangers. Your fortune will approximate anticipation. To accord others welcome, denotes your congeniality and warm nature will be your passport into pleasures, or any other desired place. |
weighing . To dream of weighing, denotes that you are approaching a prosperous period, and if you set yourself determinedly toward success you will victoriously reap the full fruition of your labors. To weigh others, you will be able to subordinate them to your interest. For a young woman to weigh with her lover, foretells that he will be ready at all times to comply with her demands. |
weevil . To dream of weevils, portends loss in trade and falseness in love. |
weeding . To dream that you are weeding, foretells that you will have difficulty in proceeding with some work which will bring you distinction. To see others weeding, you will be fearful that enemies will upset your plans. |
wedlock . To dream that you are in the bonds of an unwelcome wedlock, denotes you will be unfortunately implicated in a disagreeable affair. For a young woman to dream that she is dissatisfied with wedlock, foretells her inclinations will persuade her into scandalous escapades. For a married woman to dream of her wedding day, warns her to fortify her strength and feelings against disappointment and grief. She will also be involved in secret quarrels and jealousies. For a woman to imagine she is pleased and securely cared for in wedlock, is a propitious dream. |
wedge . To dream of a wedge, denotes you will have trouble in some business arrangements which will be the cause of your separation from relatives. Separation of lovers or friends may also be implied. |
web . To dream of webs, foretells deceitful friends will work you loss and displeasure If the web is non elastic, you will remain firm in withstanding the attacks of the envious persons who are seeking to obtain favors from you. |
weaving . To dream that you are weaving, denotes that you will baffle any attempt to defeat you in the struggle for the up building of an honorable fortune. To see others weaving shows that you will be surrounded by healthy and energetic conditions. |
weather . To dream of the weather, foretells fluctuating tendencies in fortune. Now you are progressing immensely, to be suddenly confronted with doubts and rumblings of failure. To think you are reading the reports of a weather bureau, you will change your place of abode, after much weary deliberation, but you will be benefited by the change. To see a weather witch, denotes disagreeable conditions in your family affairs. To see them conjuring the weather, foretells quarrels in the home and disappointment in business. |
weasel . To see a weasel bent on a marauding expedition in your dreams, warns you to beware of the friendships of former enemies, as they will devour you at an unseemly time. If you destroy them, you will succeed in foiling deep schemes laid for your defeat. |
wealth . To dream that you are possessed of much wealth, foretells that you will energetically nerve yourself to meet the problems of life with that force which compells success. To see others wealthy, foretells that you will have friends who will come to your rescue in perilous times. For a young woman to dream that she is associated with wealthy people, denotes that she will have high aspirations and will manage to enlist some one who is able to further them. |
way .[242] To dream you lose your way, warns you to disabuse your mind of lucky speculations, as your enterprises threaten failure unless you are painstaking in your management of affairs. [242] See Road and Path. |
waves .[241] To dream of waves, is a sign that you hold some vital step in contemplation, which will evolve much knowledge if the waves are clear; but you will make a fatal error if you see them muddy or lashed by a storm. [241] See Ocean and Sea. |
waterfall . To dream of a waterfall, foretells that you will secure your wildest desire, and fortune will be exceedingly favorable to your progress. |
water carrier . To see water carriers passing in your dreams, denotes that your prospects will be favorable in fortune, and love will prove no laggard in your chase for pleasure. If you think you are a water carrier, you will rise above your present position. |
watch . To dream of a watch, denotes you will be prosperous in well directed speculations To look at the time of one, your efforts will be defeated by rivalry To break one, there will be distress and loss menacing you. To drop the crystal of one, foretells carelessness, or unpleasant companionship For a woman to lose one, signifies domestic disturbances will produce unhappiness. To imagine you steal one, you will have a violent enemy who will attack your reputation. To make a present of one, denotes you will suffer your interest to decline in the pursuance of undignified recreations. |
waste . To dream of wandering through waste places, foreshadows doubt and failure, where promise of success was bright before you. To dream of wasting your fortune, denotes you will be unpleasantly encumbered with domestic cares. |
wasp . Wasps, if seen in dreams, denotes that enemies will scourge and spitefully villify you. If one stings you, you will feel the effect of envy and hatred. To kill them, you will be able to throttle your enemies, and fearlessly maintain your rights. |
washing .[240] To dream that you are washing yourself, signifies that you pride yourself on the numberless liaisons you maintain. [240] See Wash Bowl or Bathing. |
wash bowl . To dream of a wash bowl, signifies that new cares will interest you, and afford much enjoyment to others. To bathe your face and hands in a bowl of clear water, denotes that you will soon consummate passionate wishes which will bind you closely to some one who interested you, but before passion enveloped you. If the bowl is soiled, or broken, you will rue an illicit engagement, which will give others pain, and afford you small pleasure. |
washboard . To see a washboard in your dreams, is indicative of embarrassment. If you see a woman using one, it predicts that you will let women rob you of energy and fortune. A broken one, portends that you will come to grief and disgraceful deeds through fast living. |
warts . If you are troubled with warts on your person, in dreams, you will be unable to successfully parry the thrusts made at your honor. To see them leaving your hands, foretells that you will overcome disagreeable obstructions to fortune. To see them on others, shows that you have bitter enemies near you. If you doctor them, you will struggle with energy to ward off threatened danger to you and yours. |
warrant . To dream that a warrant is being served on you, denotes that you will engage in some important work which will give you great uneasiness as to its standing and profits. To see a warrant served on some one else, there will be danger of your actions bringing you into fatal quarrels or misunderstandings. You are likely to be justly indignant with the wantonness of some friend. |
warehouse . To dream of a warehouse, denotes for you a successful enterprise. To see an empty one, is a sign that you will be cheated and foiled in some plan which you have given much thought and maneuvering. |
wardrobe . To dream of your wardrobe, denotes that your fortune will be endangered by your attempts to appear richer than you are. If you imagine you have a scant wardrobe, you will seek association with strangers. |
want . To dream that you are in want, denotes that you have unfortunately ignored the realities of life, and chased folly to her stronghold of sorrow and adversity. If you find yourself contented in a state of want, you will bear the misfortune which threatens you with heroism, and will see the clouds of misery disperse. To relieve want, signifies that you will be esteemed for your disinterested kindness, but you will feel no pleasure in well doing. |
waltz . To see the waltz danced, foretells that you will have pleasant relations with a cheerful and adventuresome person. For a young woman to waltz with her lover, denotes that she will be the object of much admiration, but none will seek her for a wife. If she sees her lover waltzing with a rival, she will overcome obstacles to her desires with strategy If she waltzes with a woman, she will be loved for her virtues and winning ways. If she sees persons whirling in the waltz as if intoxicated, she will be engulfed so deeply in desire and pleasure that it will be a miracle if she resists the impassioned advances of her lover and male acquaintances. |
walnut . To dream of walnuts, is an omen significant of prolific joys and favors. To dream that you crack a decayed walnut, denotes that your expectations will end in bitterness and regretable collapse. For a young woman to dream that she has walnut stain on her hands, foretells that she will see her lover turn his attention to another, and she will entertain only regrets for her past indiscreet conduct. |
walls . To dream that you find a wall obstructing your progress, you will surely succumb to ill favored influences and lose important victories in your affairs. To jump over it, you will overcome obstacles and win your desires. To force a breach in a wall, you will succeed in the attainment of your wishes by sheer tenacity of purpose. To demolish one, you will overthrow your enemies. To build one, foretells that you will carefully lay plans and will solidify your fortune to the exclusion of failure, or designing enemies. For a young woman to walk on top of a wall, shows that her future happiness will soon be made secure For her to hide behind a wall, denotes that she will form connections that she will be ashamed to acknowledge If she walks beside a base wall. she will soon have run the gamut of her attractions, and will likely be deserted at a precarious time. |
wallet . To see wallets in a dream, foretells burdens of a pleasant nature will await your discretion as to assuming them. An old or soiled one, implies unfavorable results from your labors. |
walking .[239] To dream of walking through rough brier, entangled paths, denotes that you will be much distressed over your business complications, and disagreeable misunderstandings will produce coldness and indifference. To walk in pleasant places, you will be the possessor of fortune and favor. To walk in the night brings misadventure, and unavailing struggle for contentment. For a young woman to find herself walking rapidly in her dreams, denotes that she will inherit some property, and will possess a much desired object. [239] See Wading. |
wake . To dream that you attend a wake, denotes that you will sacrifice some important engagement to enjoy some ill favored assignation. For a young woman to see her lover at a wake, foretells that she will listen to the entreaties of passion, and will be persuaded to hazard honor for love. |
waiter . To dream of a waiter, signifies you will be pleasantly entertained by a friend To see one cross or disorderly, means offensive people will thrust themselves upon your hospitality. |
wail .[238] A wail falling upon your ear while in the midst of a dream, brings fearful news of disaster and woe. For a young woman to hear a wail, foretells that she will be deserted and left alone in distress, and perchance disgrace. [238] See Weeping. |
waif . To dream of a waif, denotes personal difficulties, and especial ill luck in business. |
wagtail . To see a wagtail in a dream, foretells that you will be the victim of unpleasant gossip, and your affairs will develop unmistakable loss. |
wagon . To dream of a wagon, denotes that you will be unhappily mated, and many troubles will prematurely age you. To drive one down a hill, is ominous of proceedings which will fill you with disquiet, and will cause you loss. To drive one up hill, improves your worldly affairs. To drive a heavily loaded wagon, denotes that duty will hold you in a moral position, despite your efforts to throw her off. To drive into muddy water, is a gruesome prognostication, bringing you into a vortex of unhappiness and fearful foreboding. To see a covered wagon, foretells that you will be encompassed by mysterious treachery, which will retard your advancement. For a young woman to dream that she drives a wagon near a dangerous embankment, portends that she will be driven into an illicit entanglement, which will fill her with terror, lest she be openly discovered and ostracised If she drives across a clear stream of water, she will enjoy adventure without bringing opprobrium up |
wages . Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons engaging in new enterprises. To pay out wages, denotes that you will be confounded by dissatisfaction. To have your wages reduced, warns you of unfriendly interest that is being taken against you. An increase of wages, suggests unusual profit in any undertaking. |
wager . To dream of making a wager, signifies that you will resort to dishonest means to forward your schemes. If you lose a wager, you will sustain injury from base connections with those out of your social sphere. To win one, reinstates you in favor with fortune. If you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged and prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances. |
wafer . Wafer, if seen in a dream, purports an encounter with enemies. To eat one, suggests impoverished fortune. For a young woman to bake them, denotes that she will be tormented and distressed by fears of remaining in the unmarried state. |
wadding . Wadding, if seen in a dream, brings consolation to the sorrowing, and indifference to unfriendly criticism. |
wading .[237] If you wade in clear water while dreaming, you will partake of evanescent, but exquisite joys If the water is muddy, you are in danger of illness, or some sorrowful experiences. To see children wading in clear water is a happy prognostication, as you will be favored in your enterprises. For a young woman to dream of wading in clear foaming water, she will soon gain the desire nearest her heart. [237] See Bathing. |