Pressing Instrument

To see pressing instruments in a dream signifies the emergence of property or useful things, worldly means, guidance, knowledge, a woman who suckles a child, the deliverance of one imprisoned, the attainment of wealth for one who desires to make a fortune, and other good things. To see a pressing instrument in a dream sometimes denotes a school, a dervish lodge, a bathhouse, or sexual intercourse.

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If the pressing instrument seen in a dream is used for pressing sugar cane, it denotes worldly means and turning toward the world itself. For in the world there are foods and drinks of various colors, as well as circumstances—such as torture—by which man is subjected to torment.

Sometimes seeing a pressing instrument in a dream denotes burying something, the appearance of property and useful things, and the descent of punishment, or distributing it for the comfort of those who are in prison and their deliverance from distress.

Sometimes the pressing instrument denotes a bathhouse. For in the bathhouse there are fire, heat, water, and many people. To see a pressing instrument also denotes a school, for the school is a place where the teacher and the pupil gather. This instrument likewise denotes a dervish lodge, for there are certain people there who have withdrawn into seclusion. The people who are in seclusion emerge from it only after the evil things present in their morals and natures have departed from them.

To see an olive-pressing instrument in a dream denotes guidance for the misguided and knowledge for the student. The interpretation is likewise so for the pressing instrument from which bitter olive oil is extracted for burning in lamps. The pressing instrument also denotes goodness. The pressing instrument is a woman who suckles a child; the child is that which has been pressed.

If a person sees in a dream that pressing instruments are being sold in a city at a time of cheapness, this denotes a famine that will occur in that city and the death of a woman who suckles a child. Everything that is pressed denotes the deliverance of those in prison, sexual intercourse, and property for one who desires to make a fortune.

It can be read as a sign of easing, receiving support, gaining morale, or a fruitful development.

Underestimating opportunities, succumbing to comfort, or being late may reduce the positive effect.

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