Depth Psychology: Are you entertaining grandiose ideas? Would you like to ushinen? Don’t overdo it—silk tears easily! See Clothes, Velvet. [1]
For a young woman to dream of old silk, denotes that she will have much pride in her ancestors, and will be wooed by a wealthy, but elderly person.
If the silk is soiled or torn, she will drag her ancestral pride in the slums of disgrace. [2]
If your dream featured spun silk or bolts of silk, it is a warning that flattering people to get what you want, will end up backfiring against you. It’s better to be straight forward with people instead. [4]
Silk which is soiled or worn out indicates that, unless she is careful, she will disgrace her family. [6]
2. If wearing silk, one is vaunting one’s importance, but it is at heart false. [8]
To dream that you trade with a stranger in silk, denotes profit and joy. [10]
See also: Caterpillar. [16]
2. China. Gen. 41:42; [17]
buying: are contemplating a new venture and making the first investment.
dress, a: sensual love but not with your partner.
cleaning: are replacing contention with auspicious actions moving toward prosperity.
getting dressed up in: someone is undermining your happiness.
making: riches wil provide you with life’s necessities.
receiving, as a gift: would love the admiration of the giver.
tearing: a simulation of joy wil turn to shredded dreams.
throwing away: wil contract a contagious il ness you are not immune to.
wearing: don’t believe anything you hear without proof.
wedding: purity beyond the realm of the earthly.
garments: have a maid that is cheating you. black, of wil receive news of damages to your own affairs.
blue: live wisely with compassion and in the tranquility of your own conscience.
red: wil be wounded by a bul et of passion intended for another.
white: the beginning and end of emotional immaturity.
yellow, buying: wil be deceived by a loved one and joyous to be rid of him.
for children: prosperous affairs that are impossible to care for.
nightgowns: wil be singled out for promotion for the wrong reason.
other colors of: tranquility of conscience. sel ing: are incurring too many debts.
spinning, thread: wish to treat life more delicately.
wearing a negligee without a nightgown: wil receive a proposition and take it.
young girl, a: success wil crown your efforts but not hers. [20]
If a person in authority wears silk in a dream, it represents his arrogance. Wearing yellow or red silk in a dream means a sickness.
If a warrior wears one of these two colors in his dream, it means that he will be decorated for his chivalry.
If a man of knowledge is adorned with silk in a dream, it means that he is desirous of worldly status, or that he will lead people astray through innovation. As for the rest of people, wearing silken garments in a dream means that one’s deeds are worthy of paradise, though such a person may attain leading ranks and success in the world as well. Wearing a silken garment in a dream also means marriage to a woman from a noble lineage. Wearing a silken shawl without patterns in a dream is better than a cotton or a woolen shawl and particularly a patterned one.
(See also: Silk merchant) [21]