Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

by Gustavus Hindman Miller
To see lamps filled with oil, denotes the demonstration of business activity, from which you will receive gratifying results. Empty lamps, represent depression and despondency.

To see lighted lamps burning with a clear flame, indicates merited rise in fortune and domestic bliss.

If they give out a dull, misty radiance, you will have jealousy and envy, coupled with suspicion, to combat, in which you will be much pleased to find the right person to attack.

To drop a lighted lamp, your plans and hopes will abruptly turn into failure.

If it explodes, former friends will unite with enemies in damaging your interests. Broken lamps, indicate the death of relatives or friends.

To light a lamp, denotes that you will soon make a change in your affairs, which will lead to profit.

To carry a lamp, portends that you will be independent and self-sustaining, preferring your own convictions above others.

If the light fails, you will meet with unfortunate conclusions, and perhaps the death of friends or relatives.

If you are much affrighted, and throw a bewildering light from your window, enemies will ensnare you with professions of friendship and interest in your achievements.

To ignite your apparel from a lamp, you will sustain humiliation from sources from which you expected encouragement and sympathy, and your business will not be fraught with much good.

The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

by Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
Whether the lamps were oil, gas, or electric, lighted ones signify success, and if you were carrying one, your success will be crowned by distinction and prestige.

To light a lamp predicts an unexpected reward for a past kindness; to put out a lamp suggests a holiday or a well-earned rest An unlit lamp indicates a disappointment; a dim or flickering lamp forecasts news of an illness; to hang a guide lamp outdoors or in a window augurs a stroke of good luck; to break a lamp portends difficulties through lack of trust; many bright or decorative lamps are a sign of coming festive occasions, and red lamps are exactly what you’d expect—a warning of danger due to uncontrolled passion or temper.

A lamp- post in your dream is an omen of family troubles.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
(Candle, Flame, Light, Torch) If a pregnant woman sees herself carrying a lamp in a dream, it means that she will beget a son. As for a sick person, a lamp represents his life.

If the lamp is dimmed in the dream, it means his death.

If one sees himself repairing a lamp in a dream, it means that he will recover from an illness.

A lamp with a weak battery, or low electrical current represents health problems for a pregnant woman.

A strong lamp that lights one’s entire house denotes righteousness in that house. Ifone turns off the light in his house in a dream, it denotes the suspicious character of the owner, his financial troubles, his death, the death of a father, a mother, a wife, a child or a sick person. Ifone sees a sick person rising to the sky and carrying a lamp in a dream, it means the return of his soul to its Lord. Ifone draws light from someone else’s lamp in a dream, it means that he will acquire knowledge. Extinguishing the light of an oil lamp in a dream means attempting to conceal the truth by opposing a truthful witness, yet he will fail to win his case. Carrying a lighted lamp in the daylight in a dream represents a religious and a righteous person. Walking with a lamp during the night in a dream means observing a night vigil and prayers.

If such a person is religious by nature, then it represents benefits. Otherwise, it means that he will see wonders. Carrying a lamp at night in a dream also means repentance from one’s sins. Carrying an unlit lamp, candle, or torch in a dream means business losses, or problems at the workplace.

If one sees a lamp filled with oil that does not burn in a dream, it means sorrow and distress.

(Also see Lamp stand, Wick)