To see a porpoise in your dreams, denotes enemies are thrusting your interest aside, through your own inability to keep people interested in you. _Porter_. Seeing a porter in a dream, denotes decided bad luck and eventful happenings. To imagine yourself a porter, denotes humble circumstances. To hire one, you will be able to enjoy whatever success comes to you. To discharge one, signifies that disagreeable charges will be preferred against you. _Portfolio_. To dream of a portfolio, denotes that your employment will not be to your liking, and you will seek a change in your location. _Portrait_.[169] To dream of gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person, denotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you can but feel the disquieting and treacherousness of such joys. Your general affairs will suffer loss after dreaming of portraits. [169] See Pictures, Photographs, and Paintings. _Postage_. To dream of postage stamps, denotes system and remuneration in business. If you try to use cancelled stamps, you will fall into disrepute. To receive stamps, signifies a rapid rise to distinction. To see torn stamps, denotes that there are obstacles in your way. _Postman_.[170] To dream of a postman, denotes that hasty news will more frequently be of a distressing nature than otherwise. [170] See Letter Carrier. _Post-office_. To dream of a post-office, is a sign of unpleasant tidings. and ill luck generally. _Pot_. To dream of a pot, foretells that unimportant events will work you vexation. For a young woman to see a boiling pot, omens busy employment of pleasant and social duties. To see a broken or rusty one, implies that keen disappointment will be experienced by you. _Potatoes_. Dreaming of potatoes, brings incidents often of good. To dream of digging them, denotes success. To dream of eating them, you will enjoy substantial gain. To cook them, congenial employment. Planting them, brings realization of desires. To see them rotting, denotes vanished pleasure and a darkening future. _Potter_. To dream of a potter, denotes constant employment, with satisfactory results. For a young woman to see a potter, foretells she will enjoy pleasant engagements. _Potter's Field_. To see a potter's field in your dreams, denotes you will have poverty and misery to distress you. For a young woman to walk through a potter's field with her lover, she will give up the one she loves in the hope of mercenary gain. _Poultry_. To see dressed poultry in a dream, foretells extravagant habits will reduce your security in money matters. For a young woman to dream that she is chasing live poultry, foretells she will devote valuable time to frivolous pleasure. _Powder_. To see powder in your dreams, denotes unscrupulous people are dealing with you. You may detect them through watchfulness. _Prairie_. To dream of a prairie, denotes that you will enjoy ease, and even luxury and unobstructed progress.