Poison
Poison in dreams often speaks to something corrosive in your inner or outer life — a relationship, a thought pattern, a situation that feels toxic rather than nourishing. Notice whether you're the one poisoned, the poisoner, or simply handling the vial: each suggests a different question about where harm lives and who holds it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for poison, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To fed that you are poisoned in a dream, denotes that some painful influence will immediately reach you.
If you seek to use poison on others, you will be guilty of base thoughts, or the world will go wrong for you.
For a young woman to dream that she endeavors to rid herself of a rival in this way, she will be likely to have a deal of trouble in securing a lover.
To throw the poison away, denotes that by sheer force you will overcome unsatisfactory conditions.
To handle poison, or see others with it, signifies that unpleasantness will surround you.
To dream that your relatives or children are poisoned, you will receive injury from unsuspected sources.
If an enemy or rival is poisoned, you will overcome obstacles.
To recover from the effects of poison, indicates that you will succeed after worry.
To take strychnine or other poisonous medicine under the advice of a physician, denotes that you will undertake some affair fraught with danger.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you are poisoned is a sign you will get into bad or unworthy company: if you imagine that any friend or acquaintance is poisoned, it is a similar omen as regards them: if, in your dream, you think any one has given you poison to murder you, it foretells that some base proposal will be made to you.