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Pen in a Dream

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Seeing in a Dream

Pen

Seeing a pen in a dream signifies becoming surety for someone, knowledge, a child possessed of the ability to write, a city or a country; for an unmarried person, it signifies marrying a beautiful and good woman.

Seeing that one has a pen in one’s hand signifies swearing an oath and meeting one’s brother; seeing the pen together with ink signifies, for a married man, that his wife will give birth to a male child; the pen denotes success, victory over the enemy, keeping secrets, generosity, and goodness.

The interpretation of seeing a pen in a dream indicates that you are a talented person and that your future is bright. Writing with a pen is interpreted as the realization of the things you desire. Whoever receives a pen as a gift will enter into a good occupation.

Seeing that the pen is broken in a dream is also news that you will suffer harm from an undertaking you are about to embark upon. Your fondness for adventure may bring trouble upon you. This dream also means that you will soon achieve great successes. Whoever sees a pen in his hand learns something useful. Whoever writes with a pen receives joyful news.

Seeing the Pen of Power writing upon the Preserved Tablet in a dream is auspicious if what was written is read. Seeing the Pen of Power complete and sound signifies deliverance and emergence into light; seeing the pen broken or cracked signifies that the thing hoped for or awaited will not come to pass.

Seeing that one has a pen in one’s hand in a dream signifies the birth of a child and that one will rejoice by obtaining a duty or an official appointment. Writing with a pen is evidence that a wish will be fulfilled and that one’s livelihood and condition will continue in a good manner. Seeing oneself writing with a pen, while the writings one has written do not appear, signifies that, if one is an official, one will be dismissed from that occupation; if one is a merchant, one will suffer loss; and if one is the owner of property, one’s property will pass out of one’s hands. Whoever sees that he has difficulty sharpening his pen will encounter hardship in his affairs.

Whoever sees in a dream that his pen has been lost, stolen, or broken will suffer harm. Writing with a pen by a person who cannot read or write is likewise not interpreted as auspicious. According to another narration: Seeing a pen in a dream signifies knowledge, commanding what is good, forbidding what is evil, and a child. The pen is the value of everything. Whoever sees a pen will marry a beautiful, pious, good, and free woman. Some interpreters said that the pen is a child who writes. Whoever sees that he possesses a pen attains knowledge. If he writes with that pen, it signifies the things he will write from knowledge and learning.

If a person sees in a dream that he has a pen in his hand and beside him, this signifies a brother with whom he will come together; and if his mother is pregnant, it signifies that she will give birth to a male child. A pen seen together with ink signifies a male child for one whose wife is pregnant. If an official sees that something has occurred in his own pen, the interpretation of this dream becomes manifest with regard to that person’s livelihood and profession. Whoever sees that he dips his pen into ink commits an ugly deed. The pen signifies knowledge, a judge, the tongue, and the sword, as well as the person through whom man gains honor and renown and who executes judgments, and the things upon which those judgments are executed. The pen is generosity and goodness. Sometimes the pen signifies a person and the keeper of a person’s secret. At times, the pen signifies gaining victory over the enemy.

Whoever sees in his dream that he is holding a pen in his hand learns something of great use. Whoever writes with a pen receives joyful news. Whoever sees that a pen has been given to him as a gift enters into a new occupation whose future is bright.

Seeing a pen in a dream signifies that you will rise in rank; seeing that you have difficulty sharpening the pen with a penknife signifies that you will fail in an undertaking you have attempted; seeing that the pen is broken signifies failure and, according to some interpreters, death.

Ibn Sirin: Seeing a pen in a dream signifies knowledge and speech.

Positive Meaning

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

Shadow Meaning

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

Advice

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.