Dreams as prognostic signs

If a patient dreams, frightened, that he climbs a very thorny tree, enters a fearful cave or falls face down from a mountain, or that tall bamboos or palms grow from his head, throat or chest, these are said to be signs of his coming death.

Dreams of riding a mule, camel, donkey, boar, buffalo or fierce tiger quickly southward, of being bound and led off with oiled body by a dark woman in red clothes and garland who laughs and dances, of being seized and led away by ghosts bearing darts and ashes, by one's servants, by ascetics in very red or black clothes or by hideous women, and of seeing cotton, sesame paste, oil-cake or heaps of iron are called signs of death, and such a patient is not to be treated.

If a healthy person sees such monstrous, demon-like evil dreams he soon falls ill with many diseases; if a patient sees them he soon enters the mouth of death.

Dreams of the five supreme beings (Pancha Parameshthi), one's guru, a king, the sixteen dreams told in the Jain teaching, Jina temples, handsome friends and relatives, or of crossing a river or the sea, climbing a high mountain or riding a fine horse or elephant are called auspicious and favourable for the patient.

Seeing one's own vomit, phlegm, urine, stool and semen in the colour of a rainbow, gold or the stars, whether in a dream or awake, is listed as a sign that the person lives ten months.

Seeing oneself in a dream riding a buffalo, camel or donkey is listed among the signs of a person who lives only three months.

Dreams that agree with the patient's own nature, that are of his habitual kind, or that come from impressions of things thought about again and again are said to bear no fruit.