Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted Part 97

To dream of threading a needle, denotes that you will be burdened with the care of others than your own household.

To look for a needle, foretells useless worries.

To find a needle, foretells that you will have friends who will appreciate you.

To break one, signifies loneliness and poverty.

Negro.[135]

To dream of seeing a negro standing on your green lawn, is a sign that while your immediate future seems filled with prosperity and sweetest joys, there will creep into it unavoidable discord, which will veil all brightness in gloom for a season.

To dream of seeing a burly negro, denotes formidable rivals in affection and business.

To see a mulatto, constant worries and friction with hirelings is foretold.

To dream of a difficulty with a negro, signifies your inability to overcome disagreeable surroundings. It also denotes disappointments and ill fortune.

For a young woman to dream of a negro, she will be constrained to work for her own support, or be disappointed in her lover.

To dream of negro children, denotes many little anxieties and crosses.

For a young woman to dream of being held by a negro, portends for her many disagreeable duties. She is likely to meet with and give displeasure. She will quarrel with her dearest friends.

Sickness sometimes follows dreams of old negroes.

To see one nude, abject despair, and failure to cope with treachery may follow. Enemies will work you signal harm, and bad news from the absent may be expected.

To meet with a trusty negro in a place where he ought not to be, foretells you will be deceived by some person in whom you placed great confidence. You are likely to be much exasperated over the conduct of a servant or some person under your orders. Delays and vexations may follow.

To think that you are preaching to negroes is a warning to protect your interest, as false friends are dealing surrept.i.tiously with you. To hear a negro preaching denotes you will be greatly worried over material matters and servants are giving cause for uneasiness.

[135] See Mulatto.

Neighbor.

To see your neighbors in your dreams, denotes many profitable hours will be lost in useless strife and gossip. If they appear sad, or angry, it foretells dissensions and quarrels.

Nephew.

To dream of your nephew, denotes you are soon to come into a pleasing competency, if he is handsome and well looking; otherwise, there will be disappointment and discomfort for you.

Nest.[136]

To dream of seeing birds' nests, denotes that you will be interested in an enterprise which will be prosperous. For a young woman, this dream foretells change of abode.

To see an empty nest, indicates sorrow through the absence of a friend.

Hens' nests, foretells that you will be interested in domesticities, and children will be cheerful and obedient.

To dream of a nest filled with broken or bad eggs, portends disappointments and failure.

[136] See Birds' Nest.

Nets.

To dream of ensnaring anything with a net, denotes that you will be unscrupulous in your dealings and deportment with others.

To dream of an old or torn net, denotes that your property has mortgages, or attachments, which will cause you trouble.

Nettles.

If in your dreams you walk among nettles without being stung, you will be prosperous.

To be stung by them, you will be discontented with yourself and make others unhappy.

For a young woman to dream of pa.s.sing through nettles, foretells that she will be offered marriage by different men, and her decision will fill her with anxious foreboding.

To dream of nettles, is portentous of stringent circ.u.mstances and disobedience from children or servants.

News.

To hear good news in a dream, denotes that you will be fortunate in affairs, and have harmonious companions; but if the news be bad, contrary conditions will exist.

Newspaper.

To dream of newspapers, denotes that frauds will be detected in your dealings, and your reputation will likewise be affected.

To print a newspaper, you will have opportunities of making foreign journeys and friends.

Trying, but failing to read a newspaper, denotes that you will fail in some uncertain enterprise.

Newspaper Reporter.

If in your dreams you unwillingly see them, you will be annoyed with small talk, and perhaps quarrels of a low character.

If you are a newspaper reporter in your dreams, there will be a varied course of travel offered you, though you may experience unpleasant situations, yet there will be some honor and gain attached.

New Year.

To dream of the new year, signifies prosperity and connubial antic.i.p.ations. If you contemplate the new year in weariness, engagement will be entered into inauspiciously.

Niece.

For a woman to dream of her niece, foretells she will have unexpected trials and much useless worry in the near future.

Night.[137]

If you are surrounded by night in your dreams, you may expect unusual oppression and hardships in business. If the night seems to be vanishing, conditions which hitherto seemed unfavorable will now grow bright, and affairs will a.s.sume prosperous phases.