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Poker

To dream of seeing a red hot poker, or fighting with one,
signifies that you will meet trouble with combative energy.

To play at poker, warns you against evil company; and young women,
especially, will lose their moral distinctiveness if they find
themselves engaged in this game.

Polar Bear [164]

Polar bears in dreams, are prognostic of deceit,
as misfortune will approach you in a seeming fair aspect.
Your bitterest enemies will wear the garb of friendship.
Rivals will try to supersede you.

To see the skin of one, denotes that you will successfully
overcome any opposition.
 

[164] See Bear.

Pole-cat

To dream of a pole-cat, signifies salacious scandals.

To inhale the odor of a pole-cat on your clothes, or otherwise smell one,
you will find that your conduct will be considered rude, and your affairs
will prove unsatisfactory.

To kill one, denotes that you will overcome formidable obstacles.

Police

If the police are trying to arrest you for some crime of which you
are innocent, it foretells that you will successfully outstrip rivalry.

If the arrest is just, you will have a season of unfortunate incidents.

To see police on parole, indicates alarming fluctuations in affairs.

Polishing

To dream of polishing any article, high attainments will place
you in enviable positions.

Politician

To dream of a politician, denotes displeasing companionships,
and incidences where you will lose time and means.

If you engage in political wrangling, it portends that misunderstandings
and ill feeling will be shown you by friends.

For a young woman to dream of taking interest in politics,
warns her against designing duplicity,

Polka [165]

To dream of dancing the polka, denotes pleasant occupations.
 

[165] See Dancing.

Pomegranate

Pomegranates, when dreamed of, denotes that you will wisely use
your talents for the enrichment of the mind rather than seeking
those pleasures which destroy morality and health.

If your sweetheart gives you one, you will be lured by artful
wiles to the verge of distraction by woman's charms, but inner
forces will hold you safe from thralldom.

To eat one, signifies that you will yield yourself a captive
to the personal charms of another.

Pond [166]

To see a pond in your dream, denotes that events will bring no emotion,
and fortune will retain a placid outlook.

If the pond is muddy, you will have domestic quarrels.
 

[166] See Water Puddle and kindred words.

Pony

To see ponies in your dreams, signifies moderate speculations
will be rewarded with success.

Poor [167]

To dream that you, or any of your friends, appear to be poor,
is significant of worry and losses.
 

[167] See Pauper.

Poor-house

To see a poor-house in your dream, denotes you have unfaithful friends,
who will care for you only as they can use your money and belongings.

Pope

Any dream in which you see the Pope, without speaking to him,
warns you of servitude. You will bow to the will of some master,
even to that of women.

To speak to the Pope, denotes that certain high honors are in store for you.
To see the Pope looking sad or displeased, warns you against vice or sorrow
of some kind.

Poplars

To dream of seeing poplars, is an omen of good, if they are in leaf or bloom.

For a young woman to stand by her lover beneath the blossoms and leaves
of a tulip poplar, she will realize her most extravagant hopes.

Her lover will be handsome and polished. Wealth and friends will be hers.
If they are leafless and withered, she will meet with disappointments.

Poppies

Poppies seen in dreams, represents a season of seductive pleasures
and flattering business, but they all occupy unstable foundations.

If you inhale the odor of one, you will be the victim of artful
persuasions and flattery.

(The mesmeric influence of the poppy inducts one into strange atmospheres,
leaving materiality behind while the subjective self explores these realms
as in natural sleep; yet these dreams do not bear truthful warnings
to the material man. Being, in a manner, enforced.)

Porcelain

To dream of porcelain, signifies you will have favorable opportunities
of progressing in your affairs. To see it broken or soiled,
denotes mistakes will be made which will cause grave offense.

Porch

To dream of a porch, denotes that you will engage a new undertakings,
and the future will be full of uncertainties.

If a young woman dreams that she is with her lover on a porch,
implies her doubts of some one's intentions.

To dream that you build a porch, you will assume new duties.

Porcupine

To see a porcupine in your dreams, denotes that you will disapprove
any new enterprise and repel new friendships with coldness.

For a young woman to dream of a porcupine, portends that she
will fear her lover.

To see a dead one, signifies your abolishment of ill feelings and possessions.

Pork [168]

If you eat pork in your dreams, you will encounter real trouble,
but if you only see pork, you will come out of a conflict victoriously.
 

[168] See Bacon.

Porpoise

To see a porpoise in your dreams, denotes enemies are thrusting
your interest aside, through your own inability to keep people
interested in you.

Porter

Seeing a porter in a dream, denotes decided bad luck and eventful happenings.

To imagine yourself a porter, denotes humble circumstances.

To hire one, you will be able to enjoy whatever success comes to you.

To discharge one, signifies that disagreeable charges will be
preferred against you.

Portfolio

To dream of a portfolio, denotes that your employment will not be
to your liking, and you will seek a change in your location.

Portrait [169]

To dream of gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person,
denotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you can but feel
the disquieting and treacherousness of such joys. Your general
affairs will suffer loss after dreaming of portraits.
 

[169] See Pictures, Photographs, and Paintings.

Postage

To dream of postage stamps, denotes system and remuneration in business.

If you try to use cancelled stamps, you will fall into disrepute.

To receive stamps, signifies a rapid rise to distinction.

To see torn stamps, denotes that there are obstacles in your way.

Postman [170]

To dream of a postman, denotes that hasty news will more frequently
be of a distressing nature than otherwise.
 

[170] See Letter Carrier.

Post-office

To dream of a post-office, is a sign of unpleasant tidings.
and ill luck generally.

Pot

To dream of a pot, foretells that unimportant events will work you vexation.
For a young woman to see a boiling pot, omens busy employment of pleasant and
social duties. To see a broken or rusty one, implies that keen disappointment
will be experienced by you.

Potatoes

Dreaming of potatoes, brings incidents often of good.

To dream of digging them, denotes success.

To dream of eating them, you will enjoy substantial gain.

To cook them, congenial employment.

Planting them, brings realization of desires.

To see them rotting, denotes vanished pleasure and a darkening future.

Potter

To dream of a potter, denotes constant employment,
with satisfactory results. For a young woman to see a potter,
foretells she will enjoy pleasant engagements.

Potter's Field

To see a potter's field in your dreams, denotes you will have poverty
and misery to distress you. For a young woman to walk through a potter's
field with her lover, she will give up the one she loves in the hope
of mercenary gain.

Poultry

To see dressed poultry in a dream, foretells extravagant
habits will reduce your security in money matters.
For a young woman to dream that she is chasing live poultry,
foretells she will devote valuable time to frivolous pleasure.

Powder

To see powder in your dreams, denotes unscrupulous people are dealing
with you. You may detect them through watchfulness.

Prairie

To dream of a prairie, denotes that you will enjoy ease,
and even luxury and unobstructed progress.

An undulating prairie, covered with growing grasses and flowers,
signifies joyous happenings.

A barren prairie, represents loss and sadness through the absence of friends.

To be lost on one, is a sign of sadness and ill luck.

Prayer

To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so,
foretells you will be threatened with failure, which will take
strenuous efforts to avert.

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