Dreaming about quicksilver, or mercury, can have various meanings depending on the context of the dream. Generally, dreaming of mercury is often associated with travel, business endeavors, or even depression and loss.

Positive interpretations of dreams involving quicksilver include:

1. Holding mercury in your hands symbolizes the successful implementation of your plans.
2. Quicksilver in your mouth indicates strengthening your authority at work.
3. Wiping spilled mercury with a rag promises creative success.
4. Collecting mercury with a vacuum cleaner signifies a trip or a period of rest.
5. Cleaning quicksilver with a broom suggests luck in your personal life.

However, there are also negative interpretations of dreams involving mercury:

1. A lot of spilled mercury on the floor warns of the possibility of being fired.
2. Mercury on your clothes predicts a deterioration in well-being.
3. Swallowing mercury indicates the risk of making a serious mistake.
4. Conducting experiments with mercury symbolizes a period of loneliness.
5. Mercury balls merging and forming a puddle in a dream is a sign of worries.

In addition to these interpretations, other dream books offer their insights:

• According to Miller’s dream book, dreaming of mercury can suggest the commission of a frivolous act in reality.
• Finding remnants of mercury from a broken thermometer symbolizes an interesting discovery.
• Swiping mercury from under the bed with a broom predicts a breakup with your partner.
• Pouring mercury into a glass symbolizes wealth, while pouring it out signifies a sharp change in mood in the coming days, according to the Wanderer’s dream book.
• Making someone drink mercury predicts quarrels with neighbors.
• In the Islamic dream book, pouring mercury on the bed speaks of unplanned expenses, collecting it from the carpet warns about a fight, and burying mercury in the ground means raising wages.

Islam

Dreaming of mercury carries symbolic meanings related to unfulfilled intentions or projects that may not come to fruition. If you see yourself giving mercury to someone or holding it in your hand, it suggests failing to keep promises, deviating from religious practices, following personal desires over moral values, or being deceitful or treacherous. Eating mercury in a dream indicates that one of your children may grow up to be unreliable and break promises.

Mercury, symbolizing the king’s scribe, carries further interpretations:

• Eating mercury signifies trouble, worries, harm, and losses.
• Entering a quicksilver mine and obtaining something suggests that the dreamer’s wife may be deceitful.
• Selling mercury indicates protection from the schemes of a cunning woman.
• Drowning in mercury implies being ensnared by cunning and seductive women.
• Having plenty of mercury suggests acquiring wealth through deception or outsmarting others.

The planet Mercury in dreams represents authority figures, writers, commanders, government officials, travelers, adversity, or conflicts. If the Moon and Mercury appear simultaneously in the waking sky, it signifies false dreams and potential challenges such as lies, poverty, alarming news, violence, or theft. In dreams, Mercury also symbolizes a policeman.

Overall, dreams involving quicksilver or mercury symbolize broken promises, missed appointments, frivolous behavior, betrayal, and hypocrisy. Holding mercury in a dream may indicate shaken religious faith and being driven by passions, as well as being perceived as untrustworthy or treacherous.