Pauper
A pauper — destitute, dependent on charity — often touches unpleasant happenings if you are one, or a call on your generosity if you see them. The dream may ask where you fear sliding into want, and whether the figure of poverty before you is a dread about your own security or a summons to open your hand to someone genuinely in need.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pauper, 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 that you are a pauper, implies unpleasant happenings for you.
To see paupers, denotes that there will be a call upon your generosity.
[150] See Beggars and kindred words.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you visit the poor-house and see the inmates, is a sign to a woman that she will bear many children, and to a man that he will raise a large family, such a dream to a young girl foretells that she will be apt to become a mother before she is a wife.