Dictionary of Dreams

194 IBN SEERIN'S Rubbing oneselfwith mercury or a fragrant cream mixed with musk in a dream means hearing favorable praises and earning a good reputation. Lubricating someone else's head in a dream means evil and the subject should take precautions toward the one greasing his head. Having a jar of grease or cream to rub one's body with it or to apply it to others in a dream means fawning, adulation, flattery, hypocrisy, falsehood or backbiting, etcetera. If one sees his own face rubbed with grease in a dream, it means a lifetime of abstinence and religious fasting. Rubbing oneselfwith a cream as a treatment or as a medicine to lessen one's pain in a dream means that one will correct himself, or save money as a bridal dower or as a down payment toward a purchase. (Also see Lubrication; Stuffed turkey) Grease2: (Fat. See Stuffed turkey) Great Bear: (See Constellations) Greater Balram: (See Feast ofImmolation) Greed: (Avariciousness; Covetousness; Niggardliness) Greed in a dream means committing a sin. Green fields: (See Crop) Green: (Fertile; Good harvest; Longevity; Paradise; Youth) Wearing a green garment in a dream is a sign of piety, religious attendance, assiduity and devotion. Green silkygarments are the robes ofthe dwellers ofparadise. Seeing a departed person wearing a green raiment in a dreammeans that he or she are living in a good state and reaping thebenefits oftheirdeeds in theworld. It could also mean inheriting the deceased person. As for the deceased person himself, it could also mean that he has left this world in a state ofmartyrdom. All green garments in a dream represent benefits. Green in a dream is also interpreted to mean submission to God's will. (Also see Garment) Greenhouse: (See Nursery) Greetings: Greeting someone in a dream means receivingbenefits from him. Ifone greets an opponent in a dream, then it represents evil or war between them. If one sees an unknown oldman greetinghim in a dream, it means safety from the divine chastisement for one's sins. Iftheold man is known to him, then itmeans prosperity. If one is a farmer, it means that he will buy seedlings of fruit trees for his farm. If the greetings are given by an unknown young person in the dream, it means that one will escape fromthe blowofhis enemy. Ifone is seeking marriage, then the greetings mean a positive reply. Otherwise, if one greets someone he does not know in a dream, and if the other person does not reply, it means that his request for marriage will be denied. If two merchants greet one another in a dream, it means that their business will succeed, and if the secondmerchant does not reply to thegreetings in the dream, it means that their partnership will dissolve. If one's enemy greets him and brings a gift to him in a dream, itmeans that he is seeking reconciliation and iswillingtopaydamages for a settlement. If one is greeted with an unknown expression and to which he replies with a common greeting in the dream, it means that hewill be saved from a fatal accident, though he will be rewarded for his reply. However. if he does not accept it, or reply to it in the dream, it means the opposite. Ifone sees himself shaking hands with someone, then embracing him in a dream, it means that he will receive glad tidings, good news, hear good words to which his reply will be the same, or it couldmeana knowledge hewill teach toothers. Ifone sees himself shaking hands and embracing his enemy in a dream, it means that their disagreement will cease. Ifone sees the angels greetinghim in a dream, itmeans that his insight will grow. Greetings in a dream represent submissiveness, surrender, or the need for a reply concerning an interest one has with the other party. If one commences talking to someone before greeting him in a dream, it means innovation, and the same interpretation is given if he does not reply to