Seeing “alive person dead person eating cake”
in your dream

Any large cyprinoid freshwater fish or a barbel fish (cyprinus bynni; barbus) in a dream denote positive benefits for someone intending marriage or to enter into a business partnership. Seeing a herring or any of its clupeid type fish in a dream represent evil work or toiling for something one will never get. A fish in the pond in a dream is also a sign of benefits, though may be little benefits. Seeing dead fish floating in the water in a dream has an ominous connotation, or they could represent a hopeless case. Taking fish from the water and eating them alive means profits, or an appointment to a high raking position in wakefulness. In a dream, if a sick man or a traveller finds fish in his bed it also connotes bad or a painful sickness or suffering from arthritis, or he may drown because he would be sleeping with them.

• 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.

Dates symbolize the reading of the Holy Quran, good religious faith, rain, general and honest welfare, and savings.

• Eating high-quality dates: Will hear something good and useful.

• Buying dates: Will save money or receive money from some safe or treasury.

• Opening a date and removing its pit: Will have a child, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran: “Lo! Allah 
(it is) Who splitteth the grain of corn and the date-stone  (for sprouting). He bringeth forth the living from the dead, and is The bringer-forth of the dead from the living. Such is Allah. How then are ye perverted?” 
(“Al-Anam” [Cattle], verse 95.)

• Eating dates with tar: Will divorce secretly.

• Seeing a dead person reading or reciting “Ayat Al Rahma” or verses referring to God’s compassion and mercy: The dead person is enjoying God’s mercy.

• Seeing a dead person reading or reciting verses alluding to God’s punishment: He is tortured by God.

• Verses implying a warning: Beware of committing sins.

• Verses referring to good tidings: Welfare is ahead.

• Dreaming that you are reading verses about the tortures God is reserving for the unbelievers and stumbling over one of them 
(being unable to read it): Joy.

• Being crucified alive: Dignity, honour, and religious righteousness.

• Being crucified and dead: Prestige coupled with corrupt religious faith.

• Being crucified and killed or after being killed: Prestige, but the dreamer will be lied to.

• Being crucified without remembering when that happened:  (1) Lost money will come back. 
(2) If the dreamer is poor, will get rich.  (3) Bad omen for the rich 
(according to some interpreters).  (4) Poverty, because a person is crucified naked. 
(5) Will have a safe sea journey, because the cross is made of wood and resembles the helm.

The person’s head is the imam or Muslim spiritual leader, his chief, his capital, or his
endeavours. It also symbolizes his parents and his children if they are alive. Moreover, it symbolizes the mind or the brain.
Any disease in the head applies to the dreamer’s chief.

• The imam seeing his head bigger than usual: Abundance and more power.

• An ordinary person seeing his head bigger than usual: More dignity. The reverse is also true.

• The imam seeing himself with a ram head: He will be fair and just.

• The imam seeing himself with a dog head: He will be a tyrant and treat his subjects foolishly.

• A person whose parents or children are alive dreaming of having been beheaded: Bad omen.

• The same dream made by a person who is afraid or condemned to death: A good dream, because you only die once.

• 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.

• 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.

• A poor person collecting and eating truffles and the like: Will become rich.

• A rich person collecting and eating such plants: Will get richer.

• An ascetic person unearthing and eating truffles: Will come back to the pleasures of the flesh.

• Moving from one truffle field to another: Will undertake pleasure trips or move from one market to another or from one trade to another.

The embrace symbolizes:  (1) Long life.  (2) Love and cordiality. 
(3) Good words.  (4) Travel.  (5) The return of an absent one. 
(6) The end of worries.  (7) Sex.

• Embracing a dead person: Will have a long life.

• A dead person holding the dreamer tight and inescapably to defeat and humiliate him: Will die.

Frowning in someone's face in a dream also means suffering at his hand. If a woman sees her face blackened with soot in a dream, it means the death of her husband. If she sees herself putting makeup and anointing herself with perfume in a dream, it means good news for her and for her husband. A smiling and a cheerful face in a dream connotes happiness and righteousness whether the person is alive or dead. The beauty of a woman's face or that of a child in a dream means blessings. Having two faces in a dream mean a grievous and an woeful end, for Allah Almighty does not look at someone who has two faces.

(Dig up a grave; Unearth) Exhuming the body of a deceased person and finding him alive in his grave in a dream means pursuing his tradition, knowledge, wisdom, trade or practices. It also means acquiring lawful money. If one finds him dead in his grave, then there is no benefit in his striving. A grave robber or a body snatcher in a dream represents a deliberate and a premeditated scheme to unravel a mystery, or forming an expedition to search for a hidden treasure. Digging the grave of a renowned scholar in a dream means studying his school of thought and the restoration of his studies, life, traditions and prominence. (Also see Grave digger; Grave)

• Pork: Likewise, it means sinful money.

• Dry meat: Slandering the dead.

• Camel meat:  (1) Money and other benefits from the supreme authority. 
(2) Money from a giant man and powerful enemy, as long as the dreamer had not touched it. If he had, it would mean the reverse. Eating it cooked means the dreamer will unjustly eat the wealth of another person, fall ill, then recover.

• Seeing skinned mutton in one’s house, cut in slices: Will contact people never known or seen before and get invited or invite them, and to the dreamer’s delight, they will prove to be real brothers. If such meat was skinned but not in slices, that means sudden tragedy or the death of someone whom the dreamer would inherit from in case the mutton was fat; otherwise he would not inherit anything.

• Eating chicken:  (1) Benefits from the female side.  (2) Patience for the nervous. 
(3) Healing.  (4) The end of worries and sorrow.  (5) Money from foreign sources.

• Eating monkey meat:  (1) Terrible worries or ailments.  (2) Will obtain new clothes.

According to Ibn Siren, it makes no difference whether the eaten person is a man or a woman, but the younger the subject, the more likely the dream will come true.

• Eating another person’s flesh raw: Will slander that person or backbite one of his relatives.

• Eating another person’s flesh cooked or grilled: Will swallow the other’s capital.

• Biting and snatching one’s own flesh and spitting it on the ground: The dreamer is an evil person and a slanderer.

• A sound person building a house with concrete or clay in a place he knows: Welfare and benefits.

• A sound person building a house with concrete or clay in an unknown place: The dreamer will do or has already done something for which he will be rewarded in the Hereafter. If the house was built with bricks, gypsum, and lime, it would mean that a sin will be committed or that the dreamer has amassed a fortune through sin and will regret it in the Hereafter, owing to the fact that fire plays a major role in the manufacturing of such constructing material. The dream would have a happy ending if the dreamer destroyed the house before waking up.

• A sick person or someone who has an ill relative or friend building a house: A tomb.

• A house of unknown construction material in an unknown location and with unknown people, isolated from the rest: The Hereafter, especially if dead persons the dreamer knows are seen in it. Entering it means that the dreamer will die, unless he comes out again, in which case it means that he will come near death but escape.

See Slave. BONE.

• Entering a grave and stepping on the bones of the dead: Will be expelled.

• Scattering the bones of the dead: You are spending your money otherwise than in your interest.

• Gathering the bones of the dead: Money and other benefits.

Views on certain items of this chapter are widely divided and sometimes diametrically opposed. For instance, according to Al-Nabulsi:

• Eating somebody’s flesh: Will speak ill of such a person in his absence.

• Eating one’s own flesh: Will eat up gains. According to Ibn Siren, will eat away savings or whatever is hoarded.
For Ibn Shaheen:

• Eating human flesh: Financial gains in any case. If the person whose flesh is being eaten is known to the dreamer, the latter will take a bite at the victim’s purse or property. In case the dreamer is eating such flesh voraciously and with great appetite while blood is spilling imminent, unquestionable, and huge financial gains will be achieved.

• Seeing a cemetery:  (1) Fear for a person who feels safe and vice versa. 
(2) Prayers and aspirations.  (3) Repentance.  (4) A reference to the Hereafter, as a cemetery is the gateway to it; to the asylum; to asceticism; to weeping; to preaching; to death, since a cemetery is the house of death; and to atheist and heretic places or the dwelling of aliens in a Muslim country, since a cemetery houses the dead and death, according to the rules of interpretation, means religious corruption. Likewise, a cemetery could refer to those who indulge in luxury; brothels; bars where drunkards lie like the dead; the homes of those who fail to pray and remember God or do any good; and prison, for the dead is locked in his grave like the prisoner in his cell.

He said that he first made a careful study of the character of both the persons and saw signs of evil present in the first person and interpreted his dream accordingly in the light of this verse of the Holy Quran : then a claimer proclaimed; O people of the caravan Surely you are thieves!. As for the second persons he saw signs of virtue and piety present in him and therefore, interpreted his dream in the light of the following verse of the Holy Book : And proclaim (O Ibraheem!) to the people about Hajj! The narrator of this incident says: “Matters turned out exactly as the Imaam had interpreted.” At times, athaan could be interpreted announcement, information and notification.

Also see Sex and Sodomy.

• A reference to an illegitimate birth.

• Marrying a relative whom Islam prohibits: Will prevail over one’s family.

• Sodomizing one’s father: Will oust him from the country or be hostile to him.

• Having sex with one’s father or mother without ejaculation: Will be good to him or her. If the dream had ended with an orgasm, it would mean the reverse.

• A man dreaming or someone dreaming of him that he is having sex with his mother, sister, brother, or similar prohibited relations seen as dead in the dream: He is not supporting them as he should, but will change his attitude and become fair. It could also mean trouble and worries or, on the contrary, benefit to both parties. If they are seen to be alive in the dream, he does not have much affection for them. In case he dreamed that the act took place during the Muslims  sacred months, he would go to
Mecca (Makkah) for the pilgrimage.