Lap
A lap — where one is held or holds another — often touches security and the question of whom you draw close: rest from vexation, or exposure to criticism. The dream may ask where you're seeking shelter and ease, whom you're letting settle against you, and whether a hidden threat might be coiled in the very place you'd hoped to rest.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lap, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of sitting on some person's lap, denotes pleasant security from vexing engagements. If a young woman dreams that she is holding a person on her lap, she will be exposed to unfavorable criticism.
To see a serpent in her lap, foretells she is threatened with humiliation at the hands of enemies. If she sees a cat in her lap, she will be endangered by a seductive enemy.