Places & Buildings in dreams

Houses, graveyards, markets, prisons, walls and roads.

A house, a palace, a wall, a bridge, a graveyard, a market, a prison and a road are all images of where you are in life, and the sources use them that way. The Prophet was shown a palace in Paradise and turned back out of respect for Umar's sense of honour. A hadith reads the names in a house, and a long dream passes through gardens and cities.

Several of the Arabic words here do double duty, such as the root for crossing, which also means to interpret. The entries use those links where they are real, and where the dictionaries add more, we mark them as the dictionaries' own.

Places & Buildings A bridge No verse or hadith interprets a dreamed bridge. The Arabic verb for interpreting also means crossing, which makes a... Contextual Classical Places & Buildings A graveyard No text interprets a dreamed graveyard. The Sunnah gives the waking one a single stated purpose, remembering death,... Contextual Sunnah Places & Buildings A house The sources read a house by who owns it and who is inside: the Prophet's two house dreams work that way. Readings of... Contextual Sunnah Places & Buildings A market No text interprets a dreamed market. The compilers tie it to livelihood and worldly business and read it by what... Mixed Classical Places & Buildings A palace The palaces in the Prophet's dreams were Paradise's, named for others, and not entered. The Qur'an's palaces are... Contextual Sunnah Places & Buildings A prison No hadith interprets a dreamed prison. The Qur'an's prison is both a wrong endured and a refuge, and the well-known... Mixed Qur'an Places & Buildings A road The Prophet read the paths in one Companion's dream by who walks them, left to the people of the Fire, right to... Contextual Sunnah Places & Buildings A wall No hadith interprets a dreamed wall. The Qur'an interprets one real wall, a leaning wall over an orphans' treasure... Contextual Qur'an