Seeing “dead washing dreamer”
in your dream

It could also refer to an honest man who brings back to the right path many people who had gone astray or were misleading others.

• Lying on a mortuary washing table: Promotion and the end of worries.

• One or more dead persons requesting the dreamer to wash their clothes: The dreamer is requested to recall God, pray for someone, give sadaqa, or alms, settle a debt, satisfy an adversary, or carry out a will.

• Seeing someone washing the clothes of a dead person: The washer will do something good for the deceased.

• The dead giving the dreamer an old robe: The latter will become poor and miserable.

• The dead giving the dreamer a new robe: The latter will become rich and powerful.

• Holding one’s Arab robe and telling a dead person, “Take this and sew it,” or, “wash it,” without the cloth leaving the dreamer’s hand or becoming the property of the dead: Trouble, hardships, and depression. If the dead had taken and worn it, the dreamer would die.

• The dead giving the dreamer something of what he is wearing and the former wearing it in turn: Deep trouble and an acute disease. If the cloth was left till the dead took it back, it means that the dreamer will quickly depart from this world.

• A dead person giving the dreamer a tailored cloth that does not belong to the former and the latter taking and wearing it, then returning it to the dead, who wears it in turn: Those who live under the dreamer’s roof will die unless he had not returned the cloth to the dead, in which case the dreamer’s wealth will increase.

• The dead giving the dreamer a tattered or dirty cloth: Will commit abominations.

• Giving a cloth to the dead, but the latter neither unfolding nor wearing it: Harm will befall the dreamer’s fortune or health, but recovery will follow.

• Taking off some clothes and giving them to the dead: Will die. If the dreamer recovers the clothes, it will be otherwise.

It also means helping him against poverty or adversities, because death is the culminating phase of practicing one's religion in this world. A shroud in a dream also connotes a prison, or committing a major sin. Shrouding the dead after washing the body in a dream means washing it from impurities. (Also see Burial; Camphor; Disrobe; Mummification; Shroud)

• Observing a huge twinkling planet: Welfare, influence, and knowledge.

• Holding a planet in one’s hand: The dreamer will be blessed with an honest son.

• Holding small planets: Fame and influence.

• Stealing a planet: The dreamer will steal something valuable.

• A gigantic planet falling: Death of a chief.

• Planets disappearing from the sky:  (1) If the dreamer is rich, money will go. 
(2) If he is poor, he will die.

• Seeing a planet on one’s head: The dreamers will become famous and have an edge over others by serving a noble person.

• Dreaming that unknown people have come to you and dressed you in pompous clothes without there being any feast or marriage, then left you alone in a house: You will die.

• The dead giving the dreamer two well-washed Arab male robes: Will become prosperous.

• The dead lending his robe to the dreamer, then asking for it back: That dead person has very few good deeds to his credit and cannot hope for much of God’s forgiveness.

• Dreaming of being wrapped in a shroud like the dead, except for the head and feet, which remain uncovered: Religious corruption or simply things will go wrong.

• Weaving a shroud for a dead person: The dreamer will do something good in memory of the deceased or in
favour of his offspring as much as the winding sheet was big, beautiful, or valuable.

• Weaving a shroud for a living person known to the dreamer: Hardships and trouble for the latter.

• Weaving a shroud for a person dreamed of as unknown but alive: Good augury.

• Snatching a shroud from a dead person whom the dreamer used to know: The dreamer will follow the example of that late person.

• Being kissed by an unidentified dead person: Will accept benefits or charity through an undesirable channel or way.

• Being kissed with intense sexual passion by a dead person, whether known or unknown: Matters will be settled the way you want.

• A patient dreaming that he is kissing a dead person: Will pass away.

• A healthy person kissing the dead: The statements the dreamer is making at this time are improper. He had better remain silent. 
(His words should stop, as the dead have ceased to exist.)

• Washing, especially after sex: Things will go through; will be purified from sins and will have no more worries.

• Washing, then putting on new clothes:  (1) Will become rich.  (2) Leadership will be restored. 
(3) Will be freed from jail.  (4) Will recover from a disease.  (5) Business will flourish. 
(6) Will pay back all debts.  (7) Will go to Mecca (Makkah) for the pilgrimage.

• Wearing tattered clothes after washing: Worries and poverty.

• Washing incompletely: Things will not go through; demands will not be met.
The mortuary wash house is a merchant and a philanthropist who saves scores of people from worries.

• Driving one’s wife to another man to have him marry her concurrently: Reduced power or business losses.

• Conversely, wedding one’s wife to another man and bringing the latter to her doorstep: Business gains.

• Seeing a sick man getting married without a woman  (in the dream): The patient will die peacefully.

• Marrying a prohibited relative: The dreamer will prevail over his family.

• Marrying and penetrating a dead woman: The revival of a dead matter. But if the dreamer had neither penetrated nor even had intercourse with her, success in that matter would be shaky.

• Having an incestuous marriage with the dead: The dreamer will resume his duties towards his parents and dependents. 
(Also see Incest.)

• In the event of a kiss, it is the one who kisses who will benefit.

• Marrying and going into a dead woman: Will revive a dead matter as important as the deceased was beautiful. If the dreamer had not overwhelmed her or gone into her, the
fulfilment would not be perfect, as penetration is a higher state than simple touching.

• A woman dreaming of being wedded to a dead man who then goes into her at his or her place: Her wealth will shrink, her condition will worsen, and her life will be scattered. If the act took place at the dead man’s unknown residence, she will die.

vigour, as the words grandfather and endeavours are homonyms in Arabic.

• An identified dead man sodomizing a living human: The latter will obtain a share from the former’s bequest or from his heirs or kith and kin.

• Sodomizing a dead man: The dreamer will pray for the latter.

• Being sodomized by the caliph  (or ruler): The dreamer will rule over a province or be given an important position. Sodomizing a man without problems: Harmony prevails between the two partners during that period, and the passive one will benefit from the other, be he identified or not.

• Penetrating the anus of a prelate: The dreamer will sweep dirt.

• Loaves of bread spread on the dining table: An enemy will emerge. If the dreamer eats from them, hostility will break out.

• A dead person giving bread to the dreamer: Money or welfare from an undesirable source.

• A dead person taking a loaf of bread from the dreamer to let it fall in the fire on tar or in an empty place: The dreamer’s sick wife, if any, will die or lose faith.

• Seeing bread above the clouds, on a rooftop, or high in a palm tree: The price of bread will go up.

• Bread on the ground and people stepping on it: A huge, thankless man who promotes luxury.

• Pissing on bread: Will have sex with a prohibited relative.

• Eating eggshells: The dreamer is a graverobber.

• Dreaming that wife has laid an egg: She will give birth to an atheist, in view of Quranic verses addressed to atheists and comprising examples of God’s might and miracles, such as: “… he bringeth forth the dead from the living” 
(“Al-Rum” [The Romans], verse 19.)

• Putting an egg under a hen that cracks to give way to chicks: A dead matter will be revived, and a pious son will be born to the dreamer or as many sons as there were chicks, in view of the Quranic expression in the same verse: “He bringeth forth the living from the dead….”

• Placing eggs under a cock, which is hatched to give chicks: A tutor will arrive for the young boys.

• Breaking an egg: Will deflower a virgin. If the dreamer fails to break it, he won’t be able to pierce the hymen.

• Roaming about amid open graves: Will enter the homes of heretics or visit the jails.

• Going to a grave and digging the earth with one’s nails or trying to unearth the dead: Will probe the life of the dead dwelling in that grave to follow his pattern.

• Finding a dead person alive in his grave: Will become wise and pious and achieve orderly gains.

• Going to a graveyard to unearth the dead and finding some of them alive and others not: Terrible deaths will occur in that spot or country.

• Finding deadly reptiles or insects in a grave or flames coming out of it: 
(1) The dreamer is doing abominable things.  (2) The dead person in that grave was a heretic.

The highwayman symbolizes the evil person who easily gets angry or loses his temper. Contradictory interpretations are not uncommon.

• A highwayman taking the dreamer’s belongings: Tragedy for the dreamer or some of his folk.

• Being robbed of one’s purse and other belongings by such a bandit: The dreamer will come across a man who will support and benefit him inasmuch as was taken from him in the dream.

• Someone intercepting the dreamer and seizing his belongings: The dreamer will make life tough for the one seen in the role of the highwayman and stop dealing with and stand against him in a matter that will harm him.

• Highwaymen ganging up without being able to take away anything from the dreamer: The dreamer will get so ill as to be nearly dead, then recover and become healthy.

• Carrying an alternative head: The dreamer is fighting a plague or trying to remedy something bad he had concocted.

• Seeing oneself having cut off people’s heads at one’s home: People will be driven to the dreamer and will come to his home of their own free will or will assemble there.

• Seeing horns on one’s head: The dreamer is an invincible man.29

• Seeing oneself with a big head: The dreamer has a big brain.

• Seeing oneself headless: The dreamer is ignorant and has little, if any, brains.

• Eating the head of a dead person: The dreamer will die soon.

• Sodomizing a dead man or a woman dreaming that a dead person had made love to her: Benefits from an undesirable source, the same as the dead are undesirable sex partners.

• Sodomizing an identified dead man: Will do something good in memory of the latter, such as offering prayers, et cetera.

• Having incestuous sex or making love to a prohibited dead relation: Again, will pray for, give alms in memory of, or visit that relative’s grave.

• Making love to one’s mother seen dead in the dream: Will meet her if she is alive. Having sex with her in the grave means death.

In a dream, soap represents the washing away of one's sins, dispelling distress and adversities, or paying one's debts. Seeing a soap boiler inside one's house in a dream represents a visit by the undertaker. A bar of soap in a dream also represents a funny person. Washing a shirt with soap in a dream means recovering from an illness, or repenting from sin. A bar of soap in a dream also means hearing a story, writing a story, bringing a deposition before a judge, or it could simply mean washing one's dirt.

• Making love to one’s mother known to be dead in the dream: Will meet her if she is alive.

• Making love to one’s dead mother: The dreamer will die, because mother is synonym for earth.

• Having sex with one’s mother in her grave: Death.

• A traveller dreaming that he is making love to his mother: Will return to her from his journey.

• A poor man or a person whose mother is wealthy dreaming that he is having sex with her: 
(1) Will obtain all that he wishes from her.  (2) She will die and he will inherit from her.

• A sick man dreaming of having sex with his mother: Will recover.

• Making love to one’s living mother:  (1) Will be inimical to the father. 
(2) If the father is ill: The father will die and the son will look after his mother as a son and a husband. 
(3) If the son is hostile to his mother: She will show him love and affection. 
(4) The dreamer is good-natured, for nature is the mother of mankind.  (5) If the son is involved in a feud over some property or a piece of land and is trying to purchase it: He will win. 
(6) If the son is a farmer or peasant: Bad omen, because he would be sowing the seeds in the dead earth where they would not grow.