Homosexual Dream Symbolism NOTE: The following excerpts come from a book on dream symbolism, indicating that some dreams have a homosexual meaning. . . . Hare, become one  [means]  see your Son, that is, he becomes swift, fearful, or a Sodomite. Lying carnally with Friends, [means] make some Bargain with him.           Buggery with Insensibles, as Plants, Stones or Earth, Death. Buggery with Persons. Males   shews of doing things absurd, and with great danger.     "     With Emission of Seed, capital Punishment thereon.     "     To others Strife and Deceit of the Devil.     "     A pretty Boy shews of idle Pleasures, as Poetry, Chymistry, &c. Lying.   Frigging foreshews ones lying with some Familiar.     "     With ones Hand, lie with ones Maid.     "     Another if you are a Schoolmaster, shews you teaching his Children.     "         "     To others do some degenerate Office for them. Engraving [of] Spanish Fly, [shews] an ungovernable barren Buggerer.     "     Members privy in Hand, Chastity. SOURCE: Lingua Tersancta: Or, a most Sure and Compleat Allegorick Dictionary to the Holy Language of the Spirit; Carefully and Faithfully expounding and illustrating all the several Word or Divine Symbols in Drea, Vision, and apparition, &c. By W. F. Esq; [i.e. Freke], Author of the New Jerusalem. London, Printed for the Author, and sold by E. Mallet near Fleet-bridge, 1703. CITATION: If you cite this Web page, please use the following citation: Rictor Norton (Ed.), "Homosexual Dream Symbolism," Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. 4 April 2012 <http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1703drea.htm>. Return to Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England