Lantern

To see a lantern in a dream is a sign that you will acquire good friends and attain happiness. It means that you will leave your troubled days behind and that everything will become beautiful. It is hope, an opportunity in love and work, and an opportunity to escape from problems. In general, dreams of lanterns are considered auspicious.

A person who has a burning lantern in his hand in a dream will immediately find an opportunity to rid himself of the problems that occupy his mind. However, if the lantern is not burning, the person will waver for a while. If the lantern in his hand suddenly goes out, that person will fall into error because of his emotions. Whoever sees a lighthouse flashing continuously in a dream will embark upon an adventure that he had never at all imagined.

To see a lantern in a dream is interpreted as days of light. To see that you are going somewhere at night while holding a lantern indicates that you are seeking a new occupation in order to earn money.

If the lantern seen in a dream makes the surroundings as bright as day and illuminates them just as in daylight, it denotes that you will possess abundant earnings; if it gives only enough light for you to see what lies before you, it denotes that in a business you enter you will incur neither profit nor loss; and if your lantern goes out while you are traveling along the road and you remain in complete darkness, it denotes that you will suffer loss.

To see another person lighting your way with a lantern in his hand is a sign that you will earn much money through that man.

According to some: If the person who sees a lantern in a dream is a person of rank and qualification, he will attain a great position; if he is one of the common people, a child will be born to him. The extinguishing or being extinguished of the lantern denotes dismissal if he is an official, and for the common people it denotes a decrease in their sustenance and blessings.

To see many lanterns in a dream is a sign of an increase in respect, esteem, and honor; according to one narration, it is a sign of strength in religion. To see many lanterns lit in a city and the city adorned with them is evidence that justice prevails in that land and that its people are maintaining their livelihoods amid abundance and prosperity.

According to another narration: To see a brightly burning lantern in a dream signifies honor and happiness, marriage, earnings, and profit. A lantern without light signifies illness and difficulty in affairs.

To see a lantern in another person’s hand in a dream denotes an opportunity from which you will benefit through someone close to you, and that you will profit from a business to which your friends direct you. To light a lantern in darkness in a dream denotes that you will attain relief in a very short time.

To see an unlit or broken lantern in a dream indicates that you will overlook an opportunity that presents itself before you, but that you will encounter more beautiful opportunities afterward. To see oneself advancing with a lantern in a dream is a sign that, after traumas such as being deceived, you will have difficulty trusting people and will try to act with the aid of your own feelings.

To see that you are holding a lantern toward the sky in a dream is a sign that you will gradually accomplish a task that is arduous and regarded as almost impossible. To see a lantern procession in a dream is an indication that you will reveal, one by one, everything you have accumulated within yourself.

To drop the lantern in your hand in a dream is a sign that you will very quickly be rid of a trouble or calamity that you are trying to cast off from yourself.

To see that you are in a lantern procession but are not carrying a lantern is a sign that you will set out upon a path with people whose opinions differ from yours, and that you will realize this during that journey.

Ibn Sîrîn: To see a lantern in a dream signifies guidance, a person who shows the right path, or a guide for one who has been left in darkness.

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