Seeing “ghost causing trouble”
in your dream

(Book dealer) In a dream, a bookseller represents someone who has vast knowledge or someone who gathers amazing stories. Seeing a bookseller in a dream also could mean overcoming one's trouble, solving one's problems, marriage, or the repentance of a sinner. (Also see Book; Bookstore)

(Empty; Forlorn; Wretched) A deserted and empty place in a dream signifies poverty or lack of food or sustenance for one's household. An empty place in a dream also could signify distress and trouble.

The policeman symbolizes the Archangel of Death or big trouble and worries. Accompanied by his aides, he represents alarm 
(not just fear); sorrow; danger; a powerful, evil, and wicked individual or many of them; harm from whimsical
behaviour; and ferocious beasts.

• An influential person dreaming of a policeman: He will demand pledges and set certain conditions for his subjects, or vice versa.

Wearing a fur coat in the winter in a dream means benefits and profits, for cold in a dream signifies poverty. If it is in the summer, then it means benefits accompanied with a sickness, distress and trouble. Sable, squirrel or tiger's fur in a dream represents an iniquitous and an unfair person.

For the ancient Arabs this mineral symbolized the haram 
(money) or money obtained by unholy means and constituting a sin and the debauched woman who corrupts others. Some interpreters regarded it as money earned the hard way or simply trouble and worries for its being difficult to swallow or digest. Dreaming of naphta being poured on someone: Harm from the ruler or higher authorities.

• Seeing gold: Sorrow and forced expenditure.

• Seeing gold covered with mud or hidden somewhere or somehow, though you know where it is: Failure.

• Perceiving gold as stored somewhere or placed in bags without seeing its color: Good dream; should expect gains, provided you are a pious person.

• Wearing gold, in general: Will enter into a marital relationship with people of a lower standard.

• Wearing a gold bracelet or bangle: Will inherit.

• Wearing two gold bracelets or bangles: Troubles are ahead by your own making, as for men gold, especially in the form of bracelets, is usually a bad omen or a reference to liars, as reportedly stated by the Holy Prophet. But for a virtuous person the same dream could mean more obedience to God and greater prosperity, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that reads: “… therein they will be given armlets of gold and will wear green robes of finest silk and gold embroidery.” 
(“Surat Al-Kahf” [The Cave], verse 31.) The same dream could also mean gains achieved with hardships.

• Wearing a golden or silver anklet: Will experience fear or go to jail. In any case, anklets, for men, symbolize chains, and all sorts of jewels and ornaments for them are bad, save the pendent, the necklace, the ring, and the earring.

(Institute; Learning; Tutoring) In a dream, a school represents its teachers, scholars, a gnostic, a school of thought, or its founder. Seeing a school in a dream also could mean divorcing one's wife then returning her to wedlock. It also means righteousness, establishing the divine laws, promoting a business, or inviting trouble. (Also see Institute)

(Castle; Citadel; Stronghold) A fortress in a dream means obliterating something from its roots or eliminating one's trouble. A fortress in a dream also represents a positive power that eliminates negative forces, or it could represent good verses evil. Entering a fortress in a dream also could mean growing in piety or developing ascetic detachment.

• Dreaming that one’s eyes have been pierced: The dreamer will lose someone or something very dear.

• Seeing something white in or around the pupil of the eye or a kind of screen: Trouble, deep worries, losses, and loss of aspirations.

• An absent relative returning blind: The dreamer will die.

• Having “the black water”  (glaucoma) in the eyes and being unable to see anything: The dreamer is shameless because, says Ibn
Siren, the eye is the center of decency and shame.

• An atheist seeing Ibrahim Will embrace Islam.

• A guilty person or a sinner seeing Ibrahim: Will repent.

• A guilty person who had abandoned praying seeing Ibrahim: Will resume that virtuous practice.

• Seeing oneself in the image of Ibrahim or in his costume:  (1) Will encounter hardships. 
(2) Wisdom and prosperity will replace trouble and worries.

Conversely, walking barefoot for a man could also mean trouble and weariness, divorce, or the death of his wife, unless he sees himself taking away his shoes or sandals to walk more freely. In the latter case, it means that he will get a high post or become a governor.

• Travelling barefoot: The dreamer will contract a debt he will not be able to settle.

• Walking with one shoe: The dreamer will split from his partner or spouse.

(Copyist; Handwriting) A calligrapher in a dream represents knowledge, charting and clarity. Otherwise, a calligrapher may represent distress, trouble, unhappiness, seeing everything dark, or he could represent uptightness. A calligrapher in a dream also represents someone who teaches people tricks, for writing is a trick. (Also see Writer)

Wealth for a poor person in a dream means trouble, because wealth can divert a poor person from the straight path. Wealth in a dream also denotes a righteous wife, a successful business, imposing one's conditions upon his enemy, or subduing the evil of a jealous friend.

As for a woman, seeing a cradle in a dream means that she will bear a child, and it could mean distress, trouble, adversities, uptightness, lamentation and crying. In a dream, a cradle also represents singing, an amusement club, an argument or a dispute. A cradle in a dream also represents a coffin. (Also see Cage; Cradle of Ismail)

• Dreaming of imprisoning certain people as a policeman: The dreamer will be on bad terms and have trouble with his subordinates.

• A polytheist having gone to Paradise, prayed in the direction of the Qiblah 
(Mecca (Makkah)) or entered a stronghold with a clear conscience: Will become a Muslim.

• A well-off person seeing a polytheist: The former seeks learning and will subdue his enemies.

• A poor and exposed person seeing a polytheist: Will befriend members of rotten sects.

  (Also see Sex, Incest, and Necromancy.)

• Sodomizing a man:  (1) Joy and alleviation from grief or trouble. 
(2) The two parties will do something wrong through ignorance.

• Sodomizing the sultan  (ruler or chief): The dreamer will lose his money. The reverse is true.

• Sodomizing a stranger:  (1) The dreamer will overspend.  (2) The dreamer will render a just judgment.

• Sodomizing one’s father: The dreamer is an obedient and affectionate son; otherwise he could never have such a dream, according to Ibn
Siren.

• A boy under the age of puberty being pregnant: A reference to his father.

• A pregnant woman:  (1) Her wealth will increase, commensurate with the size of her belly. 
(2) She will persevere till she makes the money she wants, which will grow constantly. She will be proud of her achievements and highly dignified and praised. 
(3) Trouble, unhappiness, worries, and concealed matters.

• A girl under the age of puberty being pregnant: A reference to her mother.

  (Also see Leprosy.)

• Scabies with no water: Trouble and worries caused by relatives.

• Scabies with water: Money but not without toiling.

• A poor person dreaming of scabies: Will find a fortune.

• A rich person dreaming of scabies: Will become a leader or a chief.

A knife sharpener in a dream represents someone who teaches people skills, sagacity and adroitness. A knife sharpener in a dream also represents sobriety, a dignified bearing of adversities, or he could represent a vile person, a trouble maker, or a decisive person.

Salt has controversial interpretations. Ibn Siren did not like dreams involving salt. Some say white salt represents asceticism coupled with welfare and blessings. Cooking salt means worries, trouble, and disease or money earned the hard way and bringing about many problems.

• Finding salt: Hardships and a severe ailment.

• Eating bread and salt: Contentment.

• A saltbox: A pretty girl.