The Symbolism of Garments in Dreams: Prosperity, Spirituality, and Challenges
Wearing a good quality garment in a dream signifies prosperity in both this world and the hereafter. Clothing in dreams often reflects spiritual states, social roles, and material conditions.
Woolen Garments
Wearing a woolen garment in a dream symbolizes renunciation of worldly desires and a call to focus on spiritual life and the afterlife.
Green Garments
Wearing green clothing in a dream signifies religious devotion. For a living person, it symbolizes benefits and protection, while for a deceased person, it indicates a good state and acceptance before God. Green garments can also represent inheritance.
White Garments
Wearing white clothing is a sign of glad tidings. However, if a fabric merchant or tailor sees themselves in white, it may indicate a lack of work.
Black Garments
Black clothing in a dream usually represents a bad omen unless the dreamer is accustomed to wearing black, in which case it signifies honor, wealth, and a high-ranking position.
Red Garments
Wearing red in a dream signifies excess earnings that may require alms, and it can also represent death, sickness, or difficulty for the poor. For unmarried women, wearing red can symbolize good fortune during festivals or gatherings.
Yellow Garments
Yellow garments typically represent sickness or internal illness. Wearing a silken garment in a dream may reflect negligence in one's religious duties.
Blue Garments
Wearing blue in a dream represents distress and difficulties.
Patterned Garments
Mixed-colored garments suggest reprimand by a superior or may symbolize a flower merchant.
Double-Sided Coat
Wearing a double-sided coat indicates duplicity or affectation.
Ritual Bath and New Garments
Putting on new garments after a ritual bath indicates prosperity or the repayment of debts.
Torn Garments
Torn clothing in a dream symbolizes spiritual struggle, poverty, or the presence of an evil spell. Two torn garments can indicate death. If repairable, it suggests that the wearer is under an evil influence.
Symbolism of Animal-Clothed Dreams
A dog wearing a woolen cloak represents a just ruler, while a lion dressed in cotton or linen suggests a ruler who confiscates wealth unjustly.
Other Meanings
Receiving used garments as a gift in a good condition represents money, while bad condition garments signify trouble. Destroying or wasting garments brings glad tidings, unless the dreamer is poor, imprisoned, or in debt. Burning one's garment means the end of difficulties, and ironing it off signifies attention to beauty and appearance.
See Also: Closet, Colors, Filth, Trader
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