Bread

To see fresh, soft, or hot bread in a dream signifies lawful earnings acquired without toil and abundant blessings; to eat bread without relish signifies living as a stranger and dying alone; to eat bread that is excessively hot signifies grief and sorrow.

To eat brown bread or corn bread in a dream signifies salvation in religion together with hardship in livelihood; to eat pide or yufka signifies abundant sustenance or a short life; barley bread signifies piety and contentment; bread made from rice flour signifies the cessation of affairs and distress.

To eat bread made from lentil and broad-bean flour in a dream signifies poverty and sorrow; giving bread to someone signifies that there will be abundance that year; seeking bread signifies a journey; finding the bread one was seeking signifies worldly gain to be obtained from a journey.

To possess much bread in a dream signifies a long life, an increase in friends and brethren—meaning brothers in religion—and abundant sustenance; to see that one has found several loaves signifies deliverance from grief and sorrow; to find half a loaf in an unknown place and be unable to eat it in any way signifies that death is approaching; to find half a loaf in a known place and take it in one’s hand signifies that half of one’s life has passed.

To see bread in a dream is خير. Whoever sees bread in his dream will attain his desire very shortly, succeed in his working life, and attain abundant money and prosperity. Cutting the crust of bread signifies solving a problem whose solution is exceedingly difficult. To see bread newly taken from the oven, or to smell it, signifies that you will be delivered from financial want. To see wheat bread signifies that important affairs which were uncertain will be set right. Millet bread is interpreted as reaching prosperity after some difficulty and distress. Barley bread signifies an unexpected increase in your financial condition. Chickpea bread signifies that your earnings will decrease, but that your health will improve. Rye bread signifies deliverance from spiritual distress. Yufka bread signifies attaining great happiness. Cutting bread means bringing an affair to a conclusion. Eating bread means that you will be content with your life. To smell bread newly taken from the oven signifies that you will be delivered from material hardship.

It signifies that the person’s material condition will improve. It is interpreted in many ways, such as abundance, prosperity, success, good fortune, and a happy household. It must be interpreted together with the person who sees it and the thing seen.

To see bread in a dream is interpreted as joy. Whoever sees in his dream that he has found one, two, or half a loaf will have no remaining sorrow. Whoever sees that he has found half a loaf in a place he does not know and has not seen before, and although he wishes to eat it is unable to do so, his death has drawn near. Whoever finds half a loaf in a place he knows and takes it in his hand has passed half of his life. Whoever has much bread but does not eat from it will bring harm upon his relatives or suffer harm from them. If he eats from this bread, he will acquire great property. Whoever sees that he is eating exceedingly hot bread will fall into grief and distress.

To see oneself eating thin bread or pide in a dream signifies the shortness of life; to see oneself hanging a loaf at one’s side signifies poverty. To see oneself giving bread to someone signifies that there will be cheapness in that land that year; to see oneself going from bakery to bakery in order to find bread signifies that one will set out on a journey; to see oneself eating bread without relish signifies illness.

To see oneself eating black bread in a dream signifies distress; to see oneself eating barley bread signifies contentment; to see oneself eating rye bread signifies that one’s affairs will diminish. According to another narration: White bread signifies sustenance that comes easily and is easy to digest, and abundant livelihood. Black bread signifies narrowness in one’s life and livelihood. Some say that each piece of bread called yufka signifies forty years of life. Others said that yufka bread signifies the accumulation of a certain amount of property—consisting of one thousand, one hundred, or ten pieces—according to the condition and worthiness of the dreamer.

To eat bitter bread in a dream signifies making a difficult living. If the bread is sweet, like honey and sugar, it signifies the dearness of the market. The interpretation of wheat is likewise. Bread signifies knowledge and Islam, and at times life and property by which life is sustained. At times yufka bread signifies the mother. Pure bread made from clean and wholesome flour signifies a pleasant and agreeable livelihood, knowledge, and a beautiful wife.

Whoever sees himself distributing bread to people or to the weak, if he is a student, it signifies that he will obtain from knowledge what he needs. If he is a preacher, the bread he distributes signifies sermons. If a person sees in a dream that a dead man gives him bread, it signifies property and sustenance that will come to him from an unexpected place and through another person’s religion. To see bread upon the clouds, a house, or a date palm signifies that bread will become expensive.

To see bread being trampled underfoot in a dream signifies abundance and cheapness. If an unemployed person sees in a dream that a dead man buys bread for him, or that he places that bread in fire, a privy, or tar, that person will be called to an innovation and the people will fall into sedition. Whoever sees himself urinating upon bread, it signifies having sexual intercourse with a close female relative.

Whoever sees himself baking bread in a dream works for his livelihood in hope of lasting benefit. Whoever sees himself baking bread hastily so as not to let the oven cool, it signifies the state. He will obtain property in proportion to the amount of bread that comes out of the oven. Some say that a piece of yufka bread signifies cheapness, blessing, and ready sustenance for which another person labors and by which sorrow is removed. Whoever sees beside himself yufka bread made from flour that has been milled signifies a pleasant livelihood and that his religion is of a moderate condition. If the bread is made of barley, it signifies severity and narrowness in livelihood together with asceticism and abstinence. Dry bread likewise signifies narrowness in livelihood. Whoever sees in a dream that he immediately eats the many loaves given to him, it signifies that his death is approaching and his life is ending. At times this dream signifies a pure livelihood. To take a morsel of bread signifies that the person is greedy. For a bachelor, yufka bread signifies a wife. Millet and chickpea bread signify millet and the dearness of the market. To see bread in refuse heaps signifies cheapness and abundance.

To see broad yufka bread in a dream signifies abundant sustenance and a long life. Bread signifies the removal of grief and sorrow. Small bread signifies a short life and little sustenance. For one unaccustomed to eating it, barley bread signifies hardship in livelihood and the dearness of the market. Hot bread signifies hypocrisy and doubtful sustenance. Bread seen as spoiled and moldy is property that brings no benefit to its owner and whose alms-tax has not been paid. Whoever sees himself eating bread without relish will fall ill alone and die solitary and estranged. Unbaked bread signifies severe fever.

For a poor person, bread signifies illness and the failure of what he hopes for to come about. Bread made from separately milled flour signifies poverty for the wealthy. Some also said that hot bread made from pure flour signifies a child.

To eat thin bread signifies abundant sustenance. Some interpreters said that the thinness of bread signifies the shortness of life; others said that it signifies a slight benefit seen in abundance. Ring-shaped bread signifies little earnings; yufka bread signifies much earnings. Rusk signifies bodily health. Stale and foul-smelling bread signifies cheapness and abundance.

To see bread grow wings and fly in a dream signifies famine and high prices. Broken bread signifies abundance, an expansion of sustenance, and easy earnings. Dry bread signifies distress and need for those who live in comfort. Rusk signifies a journey. To take it to one who is unable to eat it signifies grief, sorrow, and misfortune.

Those who see rusk in a dream turn back from both good deeds and matters they have decided upon. Yufka bread signifies a journey and, at times, making difficult things easy. Fresh yufka bread signifies honor and dignity; dry yufka bread signifies evil. Foul-smelling and rotten bread signifies corruption in religion and turning away from Islam, and the corruption of the property of one’s wife and children. Pieces of bread differing in taste and color signify truthfulness or earnings from usury. The insides of bread signify beneficial knowledge, sincerity in word and deed, and hidden matters. The crust of bread signifies ostentation, exaggerated praise, and factionalism.

It is known that bread evokes sustenance, comfort, blessing, and abundance. Therefore, if the bread seen in a dream is wholesome and fresh, it signifies that good things will occur in life and that life will be sustained through lawful money. Whoever sees rotten bread or bread in a refuse heap in his dream has earned unlawful money and chosen to live by what is unlawful. Thus, it signifies that misfortunes will continually befall him. To see an excessive amount of bread in a dream and share it with the people around one signifies an increase in one’s lifespan and the leading of a life of quality.

What does it mean to see bread in a dream: It signifies that you will be wealthy and content with your life. To see bread newly taken from the oven, or to smell it, signifies that you will be delivered from material hardship.

To see oneself buying bread in a dream is an indication of abundant earnings and lawful money. If the bread one buys is hot and fresh, it means that one will achieve great success in working life and that one’s financial condition will rise. If a person sees much bread in his dream, it means that a long and healthy life awaits him.

Ibn Sirin: To see bread in a dream signifies knowledge, Islam, and lawful sustenance. White bread signifies a pleasant livelihood; barley bread signifies contentment and asceticism. To see much bread signifies a long life.

Ibn Sirin: To see a pretzel in a dream signifies a journey, saving money, evil, or entering into an argument. To eat a pretzel in a dream signifies turning toward a healthy diet. If a toothless person buys a hard pretzel in his dream, it signifies distress, burden, and trouble. To eat a pretzel in a dream also signifies the repetition of good and bad experiences.

Ibn Sirin: To hold two loaves of bread in a dream signifies that a man will marry two sisters successively.

With the right perspective, it can signify restoring balance, recovery, and developing a new understanding.

Uncertainty, indecision, or a tendency to take on excessive burden may be observed.

In the interpretation, the themes of work and responsibility, success and reputation, the emotional tone in the dream, and how the symbol concludes in the dream should be evaluated together.