Body-first-meaning
(Abdomen, Anus, Aorta, Back, Bones, Brain, Breasts, Buttocks, Chest, Earlock, Ears, Eyes, Eyebrows, Face, Feet, Fingers, Fingernails, Forehead, Hand, Head, Heart, Heels, Intestines, Jugular vein, Kidney, Knee, Legs, Limb, Lip, Livers, Loins, Lungs, Marrow, Mouth, Nails, Navel, Neck, Nerves, Nose, Rear end, Ribs, Penis, Sexual organs, Shoulders, Skin, Spinal column, Spleen, Stomach, Temple, Testicles, Thighs, Throat, Tongue, Umbilicus, Veins) The head and brain in a dream signify a person's command center, vigor, advantages, length of life, intellect, or authority. One's ears symbolize his wife, daughter, sister, or aunt. The eyes denote faith, religious practice, or offspring; the right eye for a son and the left for a daughter. The forehead stands for beauty, a son, influence, honor, riches, leadership, or the place touched in prayer. A broad forehead indicates abundance, while a narrow one suggests constraint. The eyebrows signify safeguard or spiritual patronage. The human nose represents dignity, long life, and esteem. Anything issuing from it is favorable, while what enters it may not be. A nosebleed means receiving or disbursing money. Having one's nose severed denotes circumcision, a demotion, or possibly death. Sniffing and clearing the nose points to someone beguiling his spouse. If a bird or animal emerges from the nose, it foretells livestock or a pet giving birth in that dwelling. A large nose signifies honor and respect. Smelling a pleasant fragrance suggests the birth of a son or relief from trials. One's face reflects joy or grief. Seeing the forehead and face together indicates wealth, honor, and a beautiful woman. The earlocks and temples stand for two noble and blessed daughters. A radiant face means good news; a sallow face means ill tidings or suffering. Frowning signifies misfortune; for a woman, it may mean her husband's death. The lips represent one's aides; the lower lip holds stronger meaning than the upper. They also symbolize kin: the upper lip for male relatives, the lower for female. Sealed lips indicate hardship or adversity. The mouth signifies a key, livelihood, life's end, death, sickness, strength, a chest, a market, a gatekeeper, a minister, or a doorway. A sealed mouth suggests scandal. The tongue is one's interpreter. A long tongue may mean winning a dispute or proving innocence. An elongated judge's tongue means clarity and fairness. A tied tongue signifies poverty, sickness, sorrow, calamity, or an unworthy person. Two tongues denote praiseworthiness and gaining two forms of knowledge. Seeing inside the mouth means exposing faults. Biting the tongue indicates regret. Guarding one's tongue means self-protection from error. Carrying one's tongue by hand signifies receiving compensation for injury or blood money. A blocked throat that prevents speech denotes stinginess toward family. A limb speaking against one in a dream means someone will report him to authorities or testify against him. Riding upon an enemy's shoulders means committing a misdeed or shameful act. Riding a friend's shoulders means gaining something from him. Carrying something on the shoulders means debts. Carrying a hypocrite means working at a lumberyard or carrying wood for income. Shoulders represent parents, siblings, partners, status, or beauty; what befalls them manifests in these areas. The neck signifies an embrace, a conditional grant, a legal will, or a trust. The neck and shoulders represent one's trustworthiness. A healthy, strong neck means reliability and meeting obligations. Sores or pus on the neck betray divine trust. A gentle bird perched there means benefits or an alibi; an aggressive bird means a bad omen or rebuke. A necklace, rope, or thread around the neck means keeping a promise, gaining knowledge, and honor. A long neck may mean justice, leadership, achieving goals, or calling to prayer. The left hand represents a helper, friend, savings, or a kind relative. Long hands denote charity or capability; short hands the opposite. Long hands may also mean long life, wealth, helpers, borrowing, governing, executing commands, business profit, or acumen. A severed hand means the death of a brother, father, partner, close friend, or assistant. Severing the right hand means a vow to deprive someone's rights, job loss, severed family ties, or theft. A righteous person seeing this means abstaining from evil. Severing the left hand means reconnecting with family and rediscovering virtues. A broken hand means adversity, illness, business loss, or loss of a loved one. Cracked skin on the hands means wealth loss. Stretched hands mean harm from a close friend, but can also mean generosity. Painlessly severed hands may mean falling in love. Joined hands mean a family reunion or wedding. Trembling hands mean weakness, sickness, old age, or longevity. Dry hands mean doing little good. Plunging a hand under the armpit and drawing it out bright and radiant means acquiring knowledge or wisdom, or profit. Drawing forth a flame means divine power and blessed victory. Drawing forth water means great benefits, growth, or a traveler's arrival. A right-handed person becoming left-handed means hardships. Walking on hands means dependence on a relative. Hands speaking kindly means financial ease. A hand cut off as punishment may mean marriage, a bad wife, or untrustworthiness. Washing hands with soap means abandoning an initiative or unfulfilled intention. A good spirit emerging from the hands means benefits; a malignant one means the opposite. Taking someone by the hand means helping and saving a life. Something sprouting or the hands turning to iron or vegetables means negative real-world consequences. Hands are interpreted twelve ways: brother, sister, partner, son, compassionate friend, strength, wealth, leadership, money, proof, craft, or work. The palm's condition indicates health. Clapping may mean joy or nothing. Wearing a glove means stopping wrongdoing. Slapping one's face with both hands means sorrow, sadness, or calamities. Hitting the back of one hand into the palm of the other means separation. The fingers of the right hand represent the five daily prayers: thumb for pre-dawn, index for midday, middle for mid-afternoon, ring for sunset, little for evening. Left-hand fingers represent nephews. Crossed or intertwined fingers mean difficulties and poverty. Toes represent character beauty and uprightness; defects mirror waking life. A bitten or crushed toe or finger denotes evil or an accident. Milk from the thumb and blood from the index finger means marrying a mother then her daughter, or violating them. Fingers mean exchanging harsh words, sarcasm, or mockery among relatives. Paralyzed fingers mean committing a terrible sin. A paralyzed right hand means injustice toward the weak or harming the innocent. A paralyzed left hand means a brother's or sister's death. Fingernails denote beauty, courage, strength, a religious covenant, or money. Chipped, pulled, or broken nails mean loss of money and strength. Nicely clipped nails mean spiritual and material benefits. Very long nails mean distress, sorrow, fear, and depression. Nails becoming claws mean rising against an enemy. Having no nails means bankruptcy. Yellow, green, or blue nails, or broken ones, mean death. Clipping them means dispelling calamity. A thorn or splinter under a nail means loss of power or money. Knocking nails against teeth means a vile and abhorrent act. A broad, fine chest means a sinner's repentance, eagerness to follow truth, or easing of difficulty. Breasts represent a daughter. A man's breast means a woman; a woman's breast means a man. Breasts mean five things: a little boy, a little girl, a servant, a friend, or a brother. The abdomen means money, children, relatives, or prosperity. Seeing it cut open, washed, and stitched means divine blessings, forgiveness of sins, and possibly spiritual guidance. The abdomen also denotes good conduct, amiable character, blessed enterprises, and protection from Satan. A newborn emerging from it means a child will be born to govern the household. The liver represents knowledge, money, or children. A scholar seeing his liver fly away like birds means forgetting knowledge, or children dying, or the government seizing property. Eating one's liver means earning a livelihood; cooked liver means lawful income or consuming children's property. Removing a liver means a child's death or injustice. The kidney means a good business connection, dispelling trouble, safety, a husband and wife, parents, or two lovers. Kidneys also denote a strong, courageous, hard-working man in service to authority, a personal guard, or a governor's assistant. Lungs mean joy, happiness, or sorrow. Donating a lung means receiving happiness. Eating a broiled lung of a domesticated animal means profit, possibly unlawful. A torn lung means nearing death. The spleen represents money. Intestines mean earnings, leadership, a child, unlawful money, intercession, hatred, livelihood, work, or changing one's mind about something causing disaster. The stomach means longevity, livelihood, or children; a healthy stomach means strength and long life. The same applies to intestines, navel, or umbilicus, all relating to one's wife. Ribs represent women. The loins or spine represent progeny. The back means strength, wealth, glory, fame, master, ruin, end, poverty, old age, and burdens. Carrying a heavy load means bearing sins; carrying merchandise means debt; carrying wood means backbiting. Carrying a dead person means caring for orphans. The heart means intelligence, vigilance, awareness, guidance, clarity, and piety. Buttocks and rear end represent earnings, job, and profits. Licking them means praising an unworthy, impious person. Sexual organs represent a good father or one's profession. What enters or leaves them reflects in life. The penis means children, money, pride, state, or authority. Testicles mean livelihood, daughters, protection, and maintenance. The anus means a pouch, store, resting place, or chest. The knee means capital or dedication to work and livelihood. Legs also represent capital, attention to work and conduct. A man's leg represents a woman; a woman's leg a man. Legs turning to wood or iron means failure to earn a living. Feet represent parents, livelihood, a journey, or wealth. A broken or cut-off foot means a parent's death or loss of half one's capital. Feet turning to iron or copper means longevity; to glass means a short life. Bones represent livelihood, religion, glory, or money. Collecting bones means saving money. Bone marrow means hidden money, good awareness, patience, gratitude. Veins and nerves represent clan, modesty, and progeny. Skin means ornaments, presiding over others, a veil, blessings, livelihood, provisions, life, and a garment. (Also see Aorta, Face, Finger, Five fingers, Gall bladder, Heel, Jugular vein, Marrow, Nails, Palm, Pluck, Spleen, Teeth, Tongue, Tooth)