Table in a dream: meaning in al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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Freud and Jung, a separate view

Tables, set tables, and boards are women, perhaps on account of the opposition which does away with the bodily contours.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, Dream Psychology, ch. V Sex in Dreams

Since "bed and board" (_mensa et thorus_) constitute marriage, the former are often put for the latter in the dream, and as far as practicable the sexual presentation complex is transposed to the eating complex.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, Dream Psychology, ch. V Sex in Dreams

Kinds and conditions of Table

dining table

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

It is in dreams a blessing, the answering of a supplication, and abundant living, and it indicates victory over enemies.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 329–330

Its food is considered, and the dining table is spoil taken amid danger, and its removal is the ending of that spoil.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 329–330

table (dining table)

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for the table, it is interpreted in several ways. Al-Kirmani said: Whoever sees that he is eating at a table, then he attains good and provision, because of His saying, Exalted is He: "O Allah, our Lord, send down to us a table from heaven that it may be a feast for us," the verse. And the table may be a field of war and encounter, and eating together upon it is a thrusting with the hands, each one taking for himself and working for the life of his soul.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 243

And whoever sees that he is eating at a table and he is unmarried, then he will marry; and if he does not eat upon it, the girl will be a virgin.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 243

playing dice or tables

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

TO dreame to play at Dice, or Tables, is noyse, and debate for money.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Third Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

It is alwayes good to win: to the sick it is ill, if one gives over in play:

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Third Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

spread table (banquet)

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

It has several aspects. Whoever sees that abundant food has been spread out on his banquet table while he is seated at its head, then it is interpreted in eleven aspects: might, honour, authority, joy, a circumcision, a wedding feast, glad tidings, a marriage, sovereignty, good, and benefit.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 242

Whoever sees foods of various colours upon a spread table while the people do not sit down to it, then it is not praiseworthy.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 242

table trestles

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

the tressels which bea • up the table, are the masters of the house, the governours, farmers, and enclosers:

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The first Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

spread table

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

and the ordering of affairs and the acquisition of wealth; and if it is without meat, then it is praiseworthy as well.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 241

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