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Cotton
Cotton in a dream means money, but less than that of wool. Carding cotton
in a dream means scrutinizing one’s sins. Cotton in a dream also represents a
year, and the cotton plant in a dream represents a humble man. (Also see Carder)
Couch: (Canopy; Furniture; Love seat) A raised couch in a dream represents one’s
wife, midwife or a high ranking position. If it is made of wood in the dream, it
indicates respectability, and if it is not upholstered in the dream, it means
lowness or inferiority. A fabric stuffed couch in a dream signifies honor, welfare,
promotion, good words, new clothing, love, affection and unity. (Also see Bed;
Mattress)
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Cotton ginner
(A professional craftsman who works at separating seeds from
cotton.) In a dream, a cotton ginner represents a man of knowledge or a judge
who settles disputes. He may also represent the person who mints money or one
who separates the good metal from the bad ones, or he may represent a man with
many wives and children. (Also see Carder; Cotton; Cotton ginnery)
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Cotton ginnery
(Gin) In a dream, a cotton gin means commanding someone,
satisfying a need, procreation, a righteous progeny, money making capital,
marriage, emerging truth and sagacity. A cotton gin in a dream also represents
two partners, one of them is a hypocrite and the other is a hard minded person.
(Also see Cotton ginner)
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Cotton plantation
Owning a cotton plantation in a dream signifies havingmoney
and trouble. (Also see Carder; Cotton)
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Mattress
(Bed; Sleeping pad) In a dream, a mattress represents comfort or a
woman. Selling one’s mattress in a dream means divorcing one’s wife. If one’s
wife is sick, then selling one’s mattress means that she may die from her illness.
If one sees a dog or a pig sleeping on his mattress in a dream, it means that an
insolent person is having a secret affair with one’s wife. If the mattress is stuffed
with wool, cotton, or down in the dream, it represents a wealthy woman. If the
mattress is made of brocade or silk in the dream, it represents a Hindu woman.
If the color of the mattress is white in the dream, it represents a religious and
a pious wife. A green mattress in a dream represents a pious and a religious
wife. A black mattress in the dream represents a woman who is engaged in
doing something for other than God’s pleasure. Buying a new and a beautiful-
looking mattress in a dream means marriage to a chaste and a beautiful woman.
If the new mattress is torn or damaged in the dream, it means living with an
impious woman. Changing the place of one’s bed in a dream means divorce. If
one finds himself unable to sleep on his bed in a dream, it means that he cannot
have marital relationship with his wife, or perhaps he could be suffering from
impotence. If one tears his mattress in pieces in a dream, it means that he will
commit adultery. If he sees his mattress placed in front of the city hall in a
dream, it means that he may assume an important political appointment. An
unknown mattress in an unknown place in a dream means buying, receiving,
or inheriting a farmland. A mattress in a dream also means bearing a son.
Changing one’s mattress in a dream means leaving one’s wife for the sake of
another woman. If one does not like to sleep on his mattress in a dream and
prefers to find another place to rest, it means that he will renounce his conjugal
life. Folding one’s mattress and placing it aside in a dream means leaving one’s
home for a long journey, divorcing one’s wife, or avoiding to sleep with her for
one reason or another, or it could mean the death of either the husband or the
wife. Sitting over one’s bed in a dream means gaining authority, or managing
someone’s business. Sleeping in a dream means heedlessness, or it could mean
peace and tranquility. (Also see Bed)
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Gin
(Cotton ginnery)
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Clothing
(Dwellings; Face; Look; State; Transient) One’s garment in a dream
represents his innermost thoughts that will eventually show in his attitude in
life. If one’s thoughts are good, then it will show, and if they are evil, they will
also manifest. If one wears a slipper over his head and a turban in his foot in
a dream, it means that he is carrying trouble. Depending on its type and name,
a garment in a dream could represent a man or a woman. Wearing a new
garment in a dream is better than seeing an old one. If a man sees himself
wearing a woman’s apparel in a dream, it means that he is a bachelor. If a woman
sees herself wearing a man’s garment in a dream, it means that she is
unmarried. Wearing a tightly buttoned shirt in a dream means experiencing
tight circumstances or reuniting with a traveller returning home, or it could
mean marriage for an unwed person. Wearing a stately apparel in a dream
means honor and dignity. Wearing a soldier’s uniform in a dream means war.
Wearing a scholar’s robe or a teacher’s vest in a dream means studying to become
a learned person. Wearing an ascetic’s woolen wrap in a dream means becoming
a renunciate. Wearing a salesman’s suit in a dream means hard work or looking
for work if the suit looks expensive in the dream, for people mostly wear
expensive looking suits when they are still searching for work. Wearing a white
garment in a dream means pride, honor and dignity. Wearing silk in a dream
means strength and occupying a high rank in a business or government. If one
sees a deceased person wearing a silken garment in a dream, it means that he
is dwelling in the heavenly paradise. Wearing a garment that is adorned with
gold in a dream means victory over one’s enemy. A black garment means honor,
reign and having mastery over people. Wearing a green garment in a dream
means martyrdom. Wearing a cotton garment in a dream means following the
Prophet’s tradition (uwbp). Wearing a woolen garment in a dream means
clarity, unless if it is coarse or unfitting and in that case, it means poverty and
humiliation. Wearing a linen garment in a dream means enjoying a blessing or
a favor. Wearing a brocaded garment in a dream means receiving an important
and a revered message, rising in station, enjoying wealth or it could represent
the blessing of having a child. Wearing a robe that is trailing behind one’s feet
in a dream means rebellion and disobedience, while wearing a moderately short
coat in a dream means purity, virtues and chastity. Wearing any type of garment
in a dream means emulating the character of such people or becoming a prisoner
of war. Wearing a kufi or a headdress for prayers in a dream means atonement
for one’s sins. Wearing a jubbah or a long cloak in a dream means longevity.
Wearing an open sports jacket in a dream means ease in one’s life or financial
success. Wearing a special costume for a festival or a celebration in a dream
means prosperity and a wealth that is saved for one’s children, or it could mean
buying new merchandise for one’s shop. Wearing a military uniform in a dream
means distress, trouble or a scientific dispute. Wearing one’s traditional cos¬
tumes in a dream, or that of another community means to befriend them and
to celebrate their festivities with joy. (Also see Filth; Linen; Used clothing)
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Wick
(Housekeeper; Lamp; Steward) A candle wick in a dream represents a
steward, a housekeeper or a butler. If the wick burns-up completely in one’s
dream, it means the death of any of the above. If a sparkle falls on a piece of
cotton fabric and burns it in the dream, it means that he or she may fall victim
to into evildoing. If the wick is extinguished in the dream, it means that a sick
person in that family may soon die from his illness, or that the family will receive
news of the death of a close relative. (Also see Lamp stand)
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Ginner
(Machine. See Cotton ginner)
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Raincoat
(Overcoat; Trench coat) In a dream, a raincoat means comfort, superi¬
ority, backing, cooperation and strength. As for a merchant, wearing a raincoat
in a dream means prominence, distinction and fame in his field. Wearing a
heavy raincoat in a dream means profits in one’s material and spiritual life.
Wearing a cotton overcoat in a dream means lesser benefits. Wearing silk
brocaded overcoat in a dream signifies attachment to one’s worldly gains and
disregard for one’s religious and spiritual benefits. Being the only person who
is wearing an overcoat or a raincoat in a dream means becoming poor and mixing
with good people by displaying praiseworthy qualities. (See Overcoat)
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Teasing bow
(See Carder; Cotton)
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Carding
(See Cotton)
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Carder
(Teasing bow) In a dream, a teasing bow for carding cotton represents a
disgraceful and a repulsive woman. The string or spike of a carder represents
her groaning husband. Holding a carder in a dream means befriending someone
filled with hypocrisy and repugnance. (Also see Cotton)
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Spinning
(Yarn) If a woman sees herself workingon a spinning wheel and quickly
trying to finish her work in a dream, it means that a traveller will soon come
home, or that an expected visitor will arrive. If she sees herself taking her time
in spinning her wool in a dream, it means that either she or her husband will
undertake a journey. If the thread breaks inside the bobbin in her dream, it
means cancellation of her plans to travel. If she sees herself in a dream spinning
cotton threads, it means separation from her husband. During such a separation,
she will cease asking her husband for her bridal dower, and later on she will
return to him. If she sees herself spinning linen in a dream, it means that she
will seek the company of righteous people to acquire wisdom and knowledge. If
a man sees himself spinning cotton, or linen in a dream, it means that he will
suffer humiliation, or he may engage in a job which he cannot do properly. If the
threads he is spinning turn thin in the dream, it means that he toils hard
through his work but fails to do it properly. If the threads turn too thick in the
dream, it means that he will undertake a business trip and reap success from
it. If a man sees a woman spinning cotton in her house in a dream, it means that
she will betray her husband with someone else. If one sees himself spinning
wool, fur, or hair in his dream, it means that he will undertake a profitable
business trip. To undo a spun thread in a dream means renouncing one’s
allegiance, or breaking one’s promise, or denying one’s commitment. (Also see
Ball of thread; Pledge of allegiance; Spindle)
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Cloak
In a dream, a cloak represents marriage or a child bearing wife. If the
outside of it is made of cotton, it represents one’s good spiritual standing. A cloak
in the dream usually represents longevity, prosperity for the one wearing it and
protection against a cold winter, that is poverty or the heat of summer, or
heaviness in one’s life caused by his wife, his spiritual life, his religious
attendance, or it could mean a sickness, imprisonment, distress caused by a
woman or the stress of war. If a wife sees herself wearing a cloak with the lining
made of dark sable fur in a dream, it means that she will have a lover of an
iniquitous character. (Also see Coat)
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Silk
Seeing loose silk in a dream means being enamored, or falling in love. If a
person in authority wears silk in a dream, it represents his arrogance. Wearing
yellow or red silk in a dream means a sickness. If a warrior wears one of these
two colors in his dream, it means that he will be decorated for his chivalry. If
a man of knowledge is adorned with silk in a dream, it means that he is desirous
of worldly status, or that he will lead people astray through innovation. As for
the rest of people, wearing silken garments in a dream means that one’s deeds
are worthy of paradise, though such a person may attain leading ranks and
success in the world as well. Wearing a silken garment in a dream also means
marriage to a woman from a noble lineage. Wearing a silken shawl without
patterns in a dream is better than a cotton or a woolen shawl and particularly
a patterned one. (Also see Silk merchant)
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Garment
Wearing a good quality garment in a dream means prosperity in this
world and in the hereafter. Wearing a woolen garment in a dream means
renouncing the world and calling on people to do the same and to desire the
benefits of the hereafter. Wearing a green robe in a dream brings benefits and
no harm. If a living person sees himself or someone else wearing green in a
dream, it denotes his religious devotion. As for a deceased person, it means a
good state and acceptance before God Almighty. It is also said that wearing a
green garment in a dream means receiving an inheritance. Wearing a white
garment also means glad tidings. If a fabric merchant or a tailor sees himself
wearing a white garment in a dream, it means lack of work. Wearing a black
garment in a dream means a bad omen, but if one is used to wearing black
clothing, then it means honor, wealth and receiving a high ranking position.
Wearing a red garment in a dream means excess earnings that are not yet free
from due alms. Such a person then must immediately pay the proper share of
his earnings. A red garment in a dream means death, sickness and to a poor
person, it means increase in his difficulties. Wearing a red garment in a dream
can mean good only if the person wearing it is an unmarried woman. Otherwise,
wearing red during festivals or social gatherings in a dream has no meaning.
Wearing a yellow garment in a dream or any of its derivative colors in general
means ulcer or other internal festering illness. Wearing a silken garment in a
dream means loss and negligence of one’s religious life. Wearing a blue garment
in a dream means distress and difficulties. Wearing a patterned garment of
mixed colors in a dream means being reprimanded by one’s superior. It also
could represent a flower merchant. Wearing a double sided coat means duplicity
and affectation. A washed garment in a dream means poverty and indebtedness.
Wearing a brocaded garment in a dream means attending a pilgrimage. Oth¬
erwise, if the person qualifies, it means controlling interests in a farmland, or
it may represent a good harvest for that year. Wearing a garment which is
brilliant in colors for a man in a dream represents his pride and arrogance. If
one sees himself wearing a silken raiment and portraying a religious jurist in
a dream, it means that he is a seeker of worldly titles who may invent something
new. Announcing lost and found garments in a dream means attending a
pilgrimage to Mecca or a journey to an Arab country. A woman wearing a thin
garment in a dream represents her integrity, while if she is wearing a thick
garment, it represents her labor and hardships. If one sees himself putting on
a new garment after taking a ritual bath in a dream, it means prosperity or
repayment of his debts. If one’s new garment is torn and cannot be repaired in
the dream, it means inability to bear children. If the garment can be repaired
in the dream, it means that there is an evil spell over the person wearing it.
Wearing two torn garments in a dream means death. A torn garment in a dream
also means a shattered religious or spiritual life, or it could mean that one is
pursued by an evil person, or it could mean poverty or striving to satisfy one’s
basic material needs. If one is stripped of his clothing in a dream, it means loss
of his status. Destroying or wasting garments in a dream brings glad tidings,
unless if the person seeing the dream is incarcerated, or if he is a poor person,
or if he is in debt. If a man sees himself wearing a woman’s outfit in the dream,
and if in his consciousness he intended to act effeminately, it means that he will
face a calamity and carry a great burden. If he thinks in his dream that he is
a woman, then his humiliation will be greater. Receiving used garments but in
a good condition as a gift in a dream means money, though if they are in bad
condition, they mean trouble. A dog wearing a woolen cloak in a dream
represents a just ruler. If one sees a lion wearing a cotton or a linen cloak in a
dream, it represents a ruler who confiscates people’s properties and money.
Wearing linen cloak in a dream also means living a dignified life. Eating a clean
garment in a dream means receiving lawful earnings, and eating a dirty
garment in a dream means living from unlawful money. Burning one’s garment
in a dream means the end of his difficulties. Ironing off the creases of one’s
garment before wearing it in a dream means interest in beauty, glitters and
ornaments. (Also see Closet; Colors; Filth; Trader)
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