Lamp

Lamp · Heading 1146; source lines 13266–13302 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

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 · Heading 409; source line 2870 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of dropping or breaking a lighted lamp, denotes disappointment. If, in your dream, you see the bright light of a lamp at a distance from you in the dark, and you approach it, it shows that you will either have good luck, or will be invited to visit somewhere and meet an agreeable person of the opposite sex.

Lamp · Dream section, heading 316; source lines 1255–1257 · Text transcription

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To dream of a burning lamp, signifies prosperity. To dream of a lamp suddenly extinguished, signifies the death of a near friend.

Lamp · Dream section, heading 248; source lines 4457–4459 · Text transcription

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To carry a lamp means trouble; to upset one, loss.

Lamp · Dream section, heading 150; source lines 3900–3902 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

(Lit) Trouble, not serious.

Lamp · Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10601–10607 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To carry a bright one, success, an especially favorable dream for lovers; a dim lamp, sickness; a light that goes out or is extinguished, death; or at least danger (Raphael). In ancient symbolism the lamp or flame represented the vital spark of life. Truth, righteousness, illumination, etc., are symbolized by the lamp in scriptural art.